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DIED. RICHARD NEUSTADT, 84, leading presidential scholar, adviser to Presidents Truman, Kennedy and Johnson and Harvard University professor; of complications from a fall; in Hertfordshire, England. His seminal work, Presidential Power, in which he argued that "Presidential power is the power to persuade"--first published in 1960 and updated several times since--has been a mainstay of political-science classrooms for more than four decades...
...advertised as a balls-out action movie; it seems like an unofficial sequel to Gladiator with cannonballs instead of lions. The truth is, although it stars Russell Crowe as a British sea captain named Lucky Jack Aubrey, it is as close to Gladiator as The Mask was to The Truman Show...
...action sequences has many casualties that, without getting too gory, are explicitly shown; even some beloved characters are not spared. When Maturin and Aubrey have to make tough decisions, you feel their pain and the confusion, pain and anger of their crewmen. Between Master and Commander, The Truman Show and Witness, Peter Weir has proven himself to be one of the smartest populist directors working today...
Peter Weir, who directed Harrison Ford in Witness and The Mosquito Coast, and Jim Carrey in The Truman Show, admits to being fascinated and a bit frustrated by his leading man: "One evening when we'd just had a spectacular week of dailies, I looked over at him and said, 'How do you do it?' And he shot back, 'I don't know. How do you?' That's about as deep as we got. I think I knew Jack Aubrey better than I knew Russell Crowe...
...Harry S Truman relied on Dunlop to help with steel prices; Dwight D. Eisenhower called on him to end a rail crisis; and John F. Kennedy asked him to assist in preventing labor disputes at missile construction sites. Richard Nixon sought his advice on wage and price guidelines...