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...wonderful work as an actor in the former movie as a vicious, smooth-as-snake-oil director of a theater troupe in postwar Liverpool. Grant is assured, residing inside this rotter as if he'd been waiting to play the role all his life. But it is the other, lesser performance in "Nine Months" that showcases Grant in the role Hollywood wants: Movie Star. The film, which tracks a child psychologist who hates children and his wife from pregnancy through delivery, has a cleverness that is as irresistible as it is predictable. Both films, says Corliss, should make the public...
Moyers might well have drawn more telling responses from a group that ranges from well-established poets like Sandra McPherson, Robert Bly and Adrienne Rich to such lesser-known practitioners as Daisy Zamora, Sekou Sundiata and Coleman Barks. But by ignoring specifics--by avoiding the poet's daily business of weighing word against word--he finally divorces most of the poets from their poems. Ideally, when the poet sits down to write he or she is claiming a kinship, however collateral, with Dickinson and Donne, Chaucer and Virgil. What Moyers too often gives us is the poem as self-therapy...
...unreasonable search. Today, in a 6-3 decision with broad implications for all American students, the Supreme Court ruled that public schools can require athletes to undergo random drug testing, without establishing any suspicion that the students involved are abusing substances. The Court held that school athletes have a lesser expectation of privacy, so that testing them does not constitute an unreasonable search. Justice Antonin Scalia cautioned that the new ruling applied only to athletes, and should not be interpreted as condoning suspicionless searches regarding other students.TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohennotes that the justices did not divide along traditional lines...
Though Federico Martinez Macias spent almost 10 years on death row in Texas, the case against him was never strong. He was charged with a double murder arising from a 1983 El Paso burglary. The prime witness was himself a suspect, who was allowed to plead to a lesser charge for testifying against Macias. This man first told a grand jury that he had waited in a car while Macias committed the crime. But when confronted with evidence to the contrary -- including a failed polygraph test -- he subsequently admitted that he had gone into the victims' home and tied...
...contends were wrongly convicted of capital crimes this century. Robinson believes many death sentences would be set aside if the defendants received the kind of no-expense-spared representation Skadden gave Macias. Not all the cases would result in findings of innocence, he says, but many would end in lesser sentences. "If a good close look were taken and there were some real lawyering, I wouldn't be surprised if as many as half of them ended up with a different result," he says...