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...Circuit Court of Appeals is expected Tuesday. Then Thursday, the Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote on Carolyn Kuhl, whom George Bush wants to seat on the appellate court in California. As a Reagan administration lawyer, Kuhl argued hard for tax-exempt status for the racially discriminatory Bob Jones University, and for the reversal of Roe v. Wade. Sutton and Kuhl have run up against heavy Democratic opposition, and the Dems have filibustered another appellate nominee, Miguel Estrada, for nearly two months, blocking an up-or-down vote...
...Different people have different leadership styles,” he said. “Clearly Elena Kagan is comfortable jumping right into a setting like this. We should see it as a good thing and not use it as a way to question Bob Clark’s approach. He tended to meet with students in smaller settings...
...GOOD THIEF. Neil Jordan, who hasn’t directed a feature since 1999’s The End of the Affair, ends his absence with this heist film, based upon Jean-Pierre Melville’s jazzy 1955 noir Bob le Flambeur. Nick Nolte, who weathered a well-publicized DUI arrest last year, does nothing to rehabilitate his image by starring as a graying, heroin-addicted gambler who tries to rob a casino. Holding the film together are a passel of modern noir/heist elements—the prostitute, the chummy detective, the technology whiz, exotic locations and lush cinematography...
...It’s weird how hair is the issue,” says Kyle R. McCarthy ’06, a Dudley Co-op resident from Swarthmore, Pa., who wears her strawberry blond hair in a short pixie bob. Like Ray, McCarthy struggles to find an appropriate reaction for situations of mistaken gender identity. “I was crossing the street once and a cop kept shouting, ‘Sir, stop!’” she says. “Finally, I turned around and said, ‘You can call me ma?...
...degree reversal from the picture on the page two years ago, when columnist Bob Herbert slammed Harvard in two separate columns for its refusal to grant the protestors’ demands for a “living wage” for workers. Had Harvard really cleaned up its act in such a short time...