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...conviction, along with its bloodletting fines and prison sentence of five years." But as the razing of New York's Pennsylvania Station roused the city's citizenry to band together and forestall the destruction of other landmarks, so the Eros conviction belatedly galvanized the intellectual community. Hentoff, Ginsberg, Sloan Wilson, James Jones, I.F. Stone, Grove Press' Barney Rosset and ACLUers far and wide rose to protest the pornographer's incarceration. "These eventually succeeded in having my prison sentence reduced from five years to three," Ginzburg wrote, "and in gaining my parole after I had been locked up for eight months...
...This puts a lot of pressure on Owen Wilson, which in this instance he's not quite up to. He given some pre-release interviews in which he pretends to be a real-life Dupree, while modestly disclaiming any particular ability as an actor. I don't believe the first claim, but I think we can all agree about the latter. This is a guy who has written three scripts with Wes Anderson - Bottle Rocket, Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums, which are also, come to think of it, presumptive comedies rather than the real thing. He has, as well, acted...
...District Court in Washington, the complaint accuses Vice President Dick Cheney, former top aide I. Lewis ?Scooter? Libby, and presidential adviser Karl Rove of violating the couple?s rights to free speech, privacy and equal protection by conspiring to reveal Plame?s CIA identity, ostensibly in revenge for Wilson?s criticisms of the reasons for the Iraq war. The filing came on the same day that Robert Novak, whose syndicated column first reported that Plame was with the CIA, revealed that Rove was one of his sources for the information...
...they may succeed on some counts. Plame and Wilson contend, for example, that the Administration violated their free-speech rights by taking ?retaliatory action? after Wilson, a former U.S. ambassador to several nations, wrote an op-ed piece questioning a central reason for attacking Iraq: President Bush?s claim that Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger to make a nuclear weapon. Presumably, the retaliation was the outing of Plame as a CIA official, but there?s room to debate how much harm came of that act. She didn?t lose her job or get demoted or suffer any other...
...well be too late for Bush and the White House, though - just as it may be for Specter's bill as well. The deal is unlikely to make it through both houses of Congress unaltered. Already House Republican Heather Wilson of New Mexico has announced she will introduce legislation that differs from the Specter bill, and Democrats in both chambers are rallying against the new deal. Which means that instead of drawing the line in the ongoing war powers battle, the White House may end up drawing a blank...