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...turnaround of the crime situation. People were so afraid of getting on the wrong side of him that there was very little critical coverage at the time, so it all came out in the coverage of Louima and Diallo, which are two of the most horrific incidents that occurred. [Abner Louima is a Haitian immigrant who was brutally assaulted by a police officer in a Brooklyn precinct house in 1997. Amadou Diallo was an unarmed Guinean immigrant killed by police in 1999 in a hail of 41 bullets.] In terms of transparency or accountability, there's even less now under...
...Nobody's perfect, not even TCM. We could quibble that, a few times, films (Li'l Abner, Lovers and Lollipops) have been shown in the wrong format, so that the actors look either too fat or too thin. Once in a while a picture doesn't quite fit its time slot; it will start before the designated time, or conclude after it, and if you're recording you miss the beginning...
...Edie Adams, 81, starred in two Broadway shows (Wonderful Town and Li'l Abner), played the Fairy Godmother to Julie Andrews' Cinderella in a Rodgers & Hammerstein musical for TV and hawked Muriel Cigars ("Why don't you pick one up and smoke it some time?"). She lent a pert glamour to the TV shows of immortal zany Ernie Kovacs, whom she married in 1956 and lost in a car crash in 1962. Lois Nettleton, 82, was married to another midcentury comedy genius, radio spieler Jean Shepherd; but her forte, when she got the chance to display it, was in elevated...
...years,” he said.During her time at the Law School, Kagan has taught constitutional and administrative law. She became dean after just two years as a full professor, succeeding Robert C. Clark in 2003.Kagan clerked for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and U.S. Appeals Court Judge Abner Mikva before serving as a domestic policy adviser under President Clinton.The announcement marks a continuation of Obama’s push to put in place his cabinet and key advisers as soon as possible. By contrast, President Bush’s first solicitor general, Theodore B. Olson, was nominated...
...Kagan clerked for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and U.S. Appeals Court Judge Abner Mikva before serving as a domestic policy adviser under President Clinton...