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...Turns out Stone doesn't want to be the final guy to join the lynch mob. Rather than a denunciation of Bush (hagiography is out of the question), he offers a fairly straightforward life. The film moves simultaneously on two chronological tracks: Bush's life from his Yale undergraduate days in the mid-'60s to his governorship of Texas in the mid-'90s, and his Administration's 2002 preparation to invade Iraq...
...first we get hints that Stone is up to his nifty old tricks. It's a hazing session of Yale's Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, where the forced guzzling of whiskey is the gentleman scholar's equivalent of waterboarding. The other pledges are frightened, but Dubya (Josh Brolin, who's game but not great) impresses his brothers by not only rattling off their names but also appending a goofy nickname to each. In two lightning strokes, W. provides a reference point for the Bush Administration's interrogation techniques of terrorist suspects and imagines an early example of Bush's frat...
...gone 41 to his son's 43. As played by the 6 ft. 5 in. (2m) James Cromwell, Poppy Bush looms over W. (and W.) as a commanding, commandeering figure. According to the film, he's the master manipulator who sprang Dubya from jail after a rowdy Yale prank, "took care of" a woman his son didn't want to marry and "pulled strings" to get the boy into Harvard Business School. He hates the damage W. has done to the family name: "Partying, chasing tail, driving drunk. What do you think you are - a Kennedy...
Despite months of market turmoil, Harvard’s endowment returned 8.6 percent for the year ending June 30, growing to $36.9 billion—the largest endowment total in higher education. Many other wealthy universities—including Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and MIT—have seen their endowments grow, albeit at a slower pace, even as the stock market has crashed...
Grassley spokeswoman Jill Gerber, who could not be reached for comment yesterday, told the Yale Daily News earlier this week that Welch’s bill had not changed Grassley’s mind one way or the other about whether he would introduce legislation...