Word: logan
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...brilliance and waywardness of Hughes' hectic, high-flying movie career were surely part of what fascinated Scorsese and screenwriter John Logan (who scripted RKO 281, about the making of Citizen Kane). But if Hughes had been a homebody, they would have far less to tell. So The Aviator will detail this rich and randy bachelor's dalliances with Katharine Hepburn (played by Cate Blanchett ), Ava Gardner (Kate Beckinsale) and Harlow (Gwen Stefani of the band No Doubt). The film teems with other Hollywood potentates, from MGM mogul Louis B. Mayer to supercensor Joseph Breen, and promises to be a loving...
...press conference last Monday, John Logan of the University of Albany presented the results of a study he led which found that minority children in greater Boston generally live and learn apart from their white counterparts, in statistically poorer settings—and that the inequalities had sharpened in the last 10 years...
...Separate but equal would look like a step forward,” Logan quipped in reference to the long-discarded 1896 Supreme Court rationale for segregating schools and public facilities...
...Logan authorities are quick to stress that the profiling is based not on race but on people's actions, such as lingering a little too long near a security door. But young to middle-age men draw more interest than grandmothers. And if a passport shows travel to certain Middle Eastern countries, the passenger holding it will trigger a more intensive interview...
...reason Logan decided to reinvent its security is not just that it had to live down its role as a jumping-off point for the 9/11 hijackers. It was also the place where the shoe bomber, Richard Reid, landed on Dec. 22. Aviation director Thomas Kinton, a 27-year veteran at Logan, remembers the phone call he got alerting him to the explosives that were found in Reid's shoes: "We knew from that moment on that we weren't waiting for anyone to make Logan secure." Within hours, Kinton and Major Robbins ordered the screeners--who were still airline...