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...state trooper perched alongside Interstate 89 who, with a radar gun and a wave of his mighty hand, might snare that family vehicle just as Tony Soprano might spear a bit of veal on the end of a fork. We live in a nation of laws. This much is understood, and none among us would argue the fact. Still, only very few among us would argue that our edicts are immortal, immutable, or even always pertinent. As our sitting attorney general once said: “Not every wrong, or even every violation of the law, is a crime...
Divinity student Moses Landrum IV said it was refreshing to encounter an atmosphere where the electric slide is “not only acceptable but understood...
...When a government is in trouble, an opposition party's main task is not to be unelectable. What David Cameron has achieved - and it's a massive achievement - is to make the Tories electable," says Peter Kellner, president of polling organization YouGov. "One of the things Cameron has understood better than his predecessors is that when people form judgments about politicians and parties, it's on the whole not a judgment about their policies; it's a judgment about what sort of people and what sort of party they are." And the pre-Cameron Tories, in the words of their...
...last two movies, History of Violence and Eastern Promises, were relatively successful - great critical reviews, did respectable business, were understood by Hollywood - and so my stock in Hollywood right now is pretty good. But then if I make another movie like Dead Ringers or Videodrome or Naked Lunch for the next one, my stock will go down. And I accept that. That's part of the game, I don't have any illusions about...
...mayor will resign his office, plead guilty to two counts of criminal obstruction of justice, pay $1 million restitution and spend four months in jail. "I gave that up a long time ago," said Kilpatrick, who has long battled with the local media, when the judge asked if he understood that he was giving up the right to be presumed innocent before any trial on the facts in the case. Kilpatrick must also surrender his law license and refrain from running for public office for five years. With his disapproval rating hovering near 75%, that wouldn't seem...