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...will be domestic, not foreign, policy that will occupy the President's attention for the next few months. The first order of business will be to shepherd the $825 billion stimulus package through Congress and ride herd on the additional $350 billion available to stabilize the banks. But the goal is to press an ambitious series of actions - policies that might have seemed impossible before the financial crash - across the board as quickly as possible. The quest for a national health-insurance system will debut with a major conference, bringing all the various players - including corporate America and the insurance...
...pick one up and smoke it some time?"). She lent a pert glamour to the TV shows of immortal zany Ernie Kovacs, whom she married in 1956 and lost in a car crash in 1962. Lois Nettleton, 82, was married to another midcentury comedy genius, radio spieler Jean Shepherd; but her forte, when she got the chance to display it, was in elevated drama: as Blanche in a 1973 Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, and in her Emmy-winning role as Susan B. Anthony in The American Woman: Portraits of Courage...
...farm as the family takes morning prayer in a silence broken only by the loud ticking of a clock. Esther (Miriam Toews), the mother, raises her eyes; Johan (Cornelio Wall Fehr), the father, says, "Amen"; and the children dive wordlessly into their cereal. After the meal, Esther leaves to shepherd the kids on errands, returning briefly to tell Johan to take some time for himself this morning. Alone, he weeps inconsolably...
...post-the lone cross-aisle appointment of his Administration. There's reason to believe LaHood - a veteran Illinois pol who counts Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, as a close friend - will play far more than a token role in the incoming Democratic regime. At Transportation, LaHood will shepherd the massive public works program Obama announced on Dec. 6 as the centerpiece of a plan to jumpstart the economy by creating millions of jobs. He's also a litmus test for Obama's post-partisan campaign pledges. LaHood, a downstate Republican, is the President-elect's first full Republican...
...Mulligan, who died Saturday at 83 of heart disease, had been Finch's gentle shepherd, and deserved at least a share of Peck's Oscar both for casting him and for eliciting the actor's best work. But the director's heart, here as in so many of his films, was with the Finch children. If Mulligan had an abiding interest, it was troubled youngsters on the cusp of discovering themselves by confronting the world around them. This theme occupied him from his first feature film to his last. The 1957 Fear Strikes Out gave Anthony Perkins his first lead...