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...Havilland, for example - was suspended, effectively blacklisted for a time. The first SAG-studio contract was signed in 1937, but it was only following the Supreme Court's 1948 anti-trust decision against Paramount Studios, which broke the studio monopoly, that actors were set loose. Two years later, Jimmy Stewart negotiated his way into a percentage of Winchester '73's box office grosses - or points on the back end, a practice which remains in place to this day. (See the 100 best movies of all time...
...furious, I'm outraged and I'm disgusted. If Arne Duncan cannot guarantee our protection, he should not have that job." - Marilyn Stewart, president of the Chicago teacher's union, after two laptops containing the names and social security numbers of 40,000 teachers were stolen from the district, Chicago Tribune, April...
...that Harris learned to break the law while he was at city hall, but there was a lot of lawbreaking going on while he was there," said Jay Stewart, head of the watchdog group Better Government Association. "That experience had to come from somewhere...
...early 2004 story on Harris, the Chicago Sun-Times quoted a source as saying Harris "knows where all the bodies are buried and where the gun is hidden." It is that fear that has some at City Hall worried and people like Stewart rethinking his assessment that the Feds squeezed City Hall as tight as they could in trying to finger Daley...
...target of public outrage. Talk-radio hosts in the state fielded calls from citizens who wondered how the governor could attempt anything so brazen amid what were clearly ongoing federal investigations into some of his activities. "It's as if it didn't register [with Blagojevich]," says Jay Stewart, executive director of the Illinois Better Government Association, in Chicago. "Even by our crass, low standards in Illinois, it's stunning." Most polls had the governor's approval rating in the low two digits, from 16% to about 25%, but a recent survey had Blago (as the Illinois public has grown...