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...thought she'd be a professor of art history, until she took a detour into film: "I realized that the great opportunity in film was that it was kind of a populist medium that could cross all class and cultural lines." She made The Loveless (1982) - hailed as "the thinking man's biker movie" - then went to Los Angeles to teach a course on B filmmakers of the '40s and '50s. She's been bending genres in Hollywood ever since. (See the best movies of the decade...
...argument here is that reasonable people can disagree on the importance of a new consumer agency, but it's not a realistic goal, because Republicans have declared it a deal breaker. Even before the Massachusetts election, Democratic Senate leaders had decided not to reprise the horse-trading it took to get them 60 votes for health care reform. They want a bipartisan bill, and there's no way that will happen with the CFPA. Why not ditch...
...federal deficit under control - escalating health care costs would outpace the value of the vouchers, for instance, and thereby save the government money - Orszag rebuked the plan, calling it a "dramatically different approach in which much more risk is loaded onto individuals." In short, Ryan says, "the budget director took that olive branch and hit me in the face with it." (See the top 10 political gaffes...
...doubt one reason it took Clinton so long to admit that the mullahs have been forced to cede power to the IRGC, Iran's élite military force, is that Washington hates to be the bearer of bad news, especially news that moves us closer to war. (See the top 10 players in Iran's power struggle...
...clarified. Since the Dignitas clinic opened in Switzerland in 1998, 123 Britons have traveled there to die. The friends and relatives who accompanied them have sometimes been investigated but never prosecuted. Last year, a multiple sclerosis sufferer named Debbie Purdy, concerned that her husband risked prison if he took her to Dignitas, won a case forcing Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer to make clear the circumstances that would spark legal action. Starmer published interim guidelines last September, highlighting the likelihood of prosecution in cases in which the deceased was under 18, was mentally incapable of making the decision...