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...Yale already memorializes its alumni who fell on both sides in the Civil War, and Calhoun College is named for John C. Calhoun, the author of much secessionist political theory such as the nullification doctrine to protect minority rights...
Jaeger and Faith Calhoun from Local 40 brought the contract to Timothy R. Manning, director of labor relations, for signing. According to Jaeger, Manning responded by saying, "Thank you very much; we have to think about it." Jaeger told Manning that the union would be right outside...
Pappas is the tornado at the center of City Hall, a cluttered drama that imagines a Faustian battle between Pappas and his deputy mayor Kevin Calhoun (John Cusack). Kevin is a Louisiana boy who wants to hold onto his ideals even as he grabs for the brass ring. That won't be easy. A black child has been gunned down by a Mafioso, and the political fallout may contaminate a Brooklyn boss (Danny Aiello), a stately judge (Martin Landau), possibly even the mayor...
Movies: City HallAl Pacino plays fictitious New York Mayor John Pappas as the tornado at the center of "City Hall", a cluttered drama that imagines a Faustian battle between Pappas and his deputy mayor, Kent Calhoun (John Cusack). Because the story was written by Ken Lipper, a deputy mayor in the Koch administration, and snazzed up by a trio of old-pro screenwriters -- Nicholas Pileggi, Paul Schrader, Bo Goldman -- and because it was shot in Gotham?s City Hall with Mayor Rudolph Giuliani?s blessing, the movie has a burly verisimilitude. "After a few reels, though, things get goofy," says TIME...
...eight books on the reading list will include works by Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Calhoun, Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. DuBois. Students will also read several Supreme Court cases and excerpts from presidential speeches...