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...more period pieces or boring biographies—this shoot-em-up ganster pic is just what he and audiences needed.Leading the uniformly terrific cast, Nicholson brings to life his most vicious character yet. Through the clouds of cocaine and the piles of bodies he leaves in his wake, Costello has no remorse, and Nicholson remains ever so cool and dry.Oh, and then there’s Matt and Leo. Damon—in his first role as a bad guy since “School Ties”—nails the character’s cocky arrogance...
...First the obvious stuff: After weeks of pot-banging by President Bush about the future of Western civilization - a campaign designed to divert attention from Iraq and wake his party's disaffected base from its slumber - Foley has given a few key segments of the Republican coalition a jaw-dropping reason to stay home. It's hard to conceive a piece of news more likely to dampen the turnout of social conservatives than predatory sexual practices by a closeted gay Republican leader. I also doubt that the Republican coalition-minders were pleased when Foley blamed his problems on an adolescent...
...former Speaker Tip O'Neill still led the House of Representatives today, the Congressional page program might be shut down once and for all. In 1983, he threatened to do just that in the wake of another scandal involving a Congressman and a teenage page. At the time, the House was investigating allegations that two Congressmen had sexual relations with teenage pages. Representatives Daniel Crane, an Illinois Republican, and Gerry Studds, a Democrat from Massachusetts, were eventually censured for having had sex with a female page and male page, respectively...
...Gates” is any indicator, the answer probably ranges in the millions. It might arouse the ire of many that someone like Jared C. Kushner ’03, despite what could politely be described as modest academic credentials according to the book, gained admission in the wake of a $2.5 million donation from his billionaire father. But even more galling than the thought of filthy lucre corrupting Harvard’s cherished meritocracy is the thought that the same spot could have been sold for a lot more. Filthy lucre, after all, funds useful things like stem cell...
...Book resulted from an effort by then-University President James Bryant Conant ’14 to define general education and civic responsibility in the wake of the Second World...