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...similar situations who haven't yet approached immigration authorities. Of the documented cases, about a quarter are estimated to involve children. If the numbers don't seem overwhelming, Renison argues that's precisely the point: the dogged pursuit of such cases gives immigration enforcement the kind of spiteful, Javert-like image that it certainly doesn't need. Immigration officials counter that they're simply enforcing the law. But "consider all the genuinely serious immigration issues facing this country, and then consider how much time and money we've been spending deporting these widows," says Renison. "[The widows] followed the rules...
...Jackson incident gave the giant a hotfoot. Before that--despite Powell's reputation as Howard Stern's Inspector Javert--the group found the former chair unresponsive to its concerns. ("I don't want the government as my nanny," Powell said in 2001.) Winter, a lifelong Democrat who heads the PTC's Los Angeles and Alexandria offices (to Hollywood, he's the good cop to Bozell's bad cop), says, "We embarrass the FCC. We prove that they're not doing their job, and they are embarrassed...
...actors playing dozens of roles in ?Stones in My Pockets? three years back) incarnates Guillaume as a piggy-faced toady who can?t help admiring his victim. ?He listens, that?s his trick,? he says of Brandt. The Chancellor, impersonated by Roger Allam (the original Javert in the musical ?Les Miserables?) with a puffed-out chest that shows awareness of his charismatic statesmanship, relishes danger, even the threat of a spy in his bosom: ?The merest possibility that Gunther is not what he seems makes him infinitely more tolerable...
WHAT IF YOU GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS CLINTON'S JAVERT...
...genre and features a different central couple. On The Run, the thriller of the series stars Belvaux, the director, as Bruno, who has just broken out of jail. Bruno desperately desires revenge and an opportunity to spread his political gospel, but has to avoid Gilbert Melki, who has a Javert like obsession with tracking down Bruno. The Trilogy makes for interesting viewing, particularly for those who have wondered what main characters would look like from another point of view. Through Thursday, April 15. 5:30, 7:30 and 9:50 p.m., with addl. 2:40 showing on Saturday and Sunday...