Word: roberts
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There was common agreement, especially among the young, that Robert Wise's The Day the Earth Stood Still was a really neat movie. And so it remains, for a lot of reasons: its timing, at the onset of the atomic age and the cold war; the clear identification of Klaatu as a Christ figure (his earth name is John Carpenter - or "JC" if you care to parse those initials - and his surname refers us to Jesus's occupation); the fact that its success helped initiate what amounted to a new and potent movie genre - sci-fi - and, above...
...complete. In his probe of public corruption in Illinois, he has already brought charges against 15 people, including Blagojevich's predecessor, former governor George Ryan. "If it isn't the most corrupt state in the United States, it's certainly one hell of a competitor," says FBI special agent Robert Grant...
...post-Senate career, Daschle has worked on healthcare policy issues and been employed by lobbying firm Alston & Bird, which he joined after being recruited by another former senator, Robert Dole...
...friends in the Senate, and I've got a lot of friends in the Senate." - Robert Dole, former senator, on Daschle taking a job at lobbying firm Aston & Bird, where Dole also worked, Washington Post March...
...growing cholera crisis in Zimbabwe, which the U.N. estimates has killed 783 people and has infected more than 16,000, simply doesn't exist in the mind of Robert Mugabe. "I am happy to say," the nation's president of 28 years announced on Thursday, "there is no cholera." And, he added, "now that there is no cholera, there is no cause...