Word: wilsonism
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...every showbiz liberal agreed that the jihadist insurgency should be indicated with a finger that was wagging, pointing or raised. Some of them - Tom Hanks, writer Aaron Sorkin, director Mike Nichols - thought they should do what they do best: turn it all into comedy. The result, Charlie Wilson's War, is that seemingly impossible object these days: a picture about war and politics that has manages to be both rational and inspirational. It is also the year's funniest smart movie...
...screwing Texas Congressman (Hanks) to get funding for antiaircraft weapons so that Afghani rebels can defeat their Soviet invaders. This was back in the 1980s, before the mujahedeen had flowered into the Taliban and backed Osama bin Laden's war against the U.S. (A postscript to the movie quotes Wilson as saying, "We f---ed up the endgame...
...complete coverage of the Pring-Wilson trial, please see http://www.thecrimson.com/crime.aspx.
...ruling on an unrelated case from the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court prompted Superior Court Judge Regina L. Quinlan to grant Pring-Wilson a retrial on the grounds that Colono’s criminal record—which included throwing money in the face of a cashier an shattering the window of a restaurant—could be admitted as evidence, though it was not in the first trial...
Originally charged with first-degree murder, Pring-Wilson was convicted of manslaughter in 2004 and sent to prison for five months...