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...wake of the downfall of intelligence committee Republican Randy "Duke" Cunningham - who is in prison after being convicted for his role in a very different scandal, involving alleged seven-figure payoffs by defense contractors - the way Congress handles the Hastings saga should shine still more light on problems with how the two parties appoint and reappoint rank-and-file members of such a sensitive committee. If Democrats found Hastings fit to serve as a member of the intelligence committee at all, many would argue, they should be able to consider him for the chairmanship. As a panel member, Hastings...
...wake of the downfall of intelligence committee Republican Randy "Duke" Cunningham - who is in prison after being convicted for his role in a very different scandal, involving alleged seven-figure payoffs by defense contractors - the way Congress handles the Hastings saga should shine still more light on problems with how the two parties appoint and reappoint rank-and-file members of such a sensitive committee. If Democrats found Hastings fit to serve as a member of the intelligence committee at all, many would argue, they should be able to consider him for the chairmanship. As a panel member, Hastings...
Here's a theme story with no theme, just a coincidence: two new Broadway musicals based on movies that couldn't be more different. One, Mary Poppins is from the P.L. Travers books that inspired the 1964 Walt Disney boxofficepalooza. The other, Grey Gardens, stitches songs onto the true saga of Edith Beale and her daughter Edie, the Jackie O. relatives who lived in spectacular squalor and family rancor in the ritzy Long Island village of East Hampton, and whose eccentricities the documentarians Albert and David Maysles put on display in their 1975 film...
...that’s made up, but you know the type) families. So for a while, I tracked the adventures of Encyclopedia Brown, the finest sleuth this side of the Atlantic. A stretch with that endless series about the Boxcar Children. Then I turned my attention to the Redwall saga, those enchanting tales of mice slaying snakes and badgers wielding clubs and the entire abbey feasting on pot pies and drinking cordials far into the night. And I was content. Sometimes, though, in the library for after-school (‘cause Hebrew School didn’t start till...
...movie I had just seen, Cry Freedom!, the story of the South African nationalist Steven Biko (Denzel Washington) and his white friend (Kevin Kline), an editor who wants to publish a book on Biko. Halfway through, Biko is dead, and Cry Freedom becomes the editor?s publish-or-perish saga. I told Jane that, as much as I agreed with the film?s sentiments, it was one more example of Hollywood thinking it can?t make a movie about a black man without making it really about a white...