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NOTES ON A SCANDAL Smirk, smirk. Pretty, slightly ditzy schoolteacher (Cate Blanchett) gets it on with one of her teenage students, and predictable consequences follow. But Notes is not really about age-inappropriate sex or child victimization. The boy involved is always the rather ugly aggressor in this relationship. If there is a victim, it is Blanchett's Sheba, addled by an unhappy marriage, failed artistic ambitions and, soon enough, by another relationship--this one from hell. It is with another teacher, Barbara (Judi Dench), who is their school's battle-ax--cruel disciplinarian, cynical commentator on the hopelessness...
...victim had no doubt where the search for his killer would lead: on his deathbed, he said his death had been ordered by Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia. Russian officials have denied that as a malicious provocation. Not surprisingly, Britain is being punctilious about amassing sufficient evidence before it points a finger in any direction. But if some shadowy figures close to the Kremlin turn out to be responsible for Litvinenko's death, it would be the most astonishing indictment of just how ruthless the modern Russian state...
...Christian Coalition is still seen symbolically as a major force, but the narrative now is that maybe their time has passed," says political analyst Stephen Medvic of Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa. "In a way, the Christian Coalition is kind of a victim of its own success...
...First, I need to get something established immediately. I'm the craziest of all the people I talk about in the show and in no way a victim of anyone I'm discussing. Now, I had been giving speeches for a long time, and I'll try anything - usually they're things that are very bad for me. To both my horror and amusement I'm the poster girl for mental illness. So I had been going out and giving speeches about that for years. There was a lot of material that I was doing anyway...
...Fuller, a Gates colleague at the CIA, contended that many of the analysts in SOVA were themselves guilty of liberal bias, painting the Soviet Union as too benign, to compensate for Casey's conservative views. Gates's defenders, who also included then-Sen. Warren Rudman, claimed Gates was a victim of character assassination by the left. Armed with his own set of documents, an angry Gates marched into the committee room with a detailed 20-point rebuttal of the politicization charges. He accused critics from the agency of being malcontents who mistook professional editing of their reports for political pressure...