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...teaser for the article, as if those stripes and that headline weren't enough of a tease, informs the interested reader that George Clooney most wants to act the part of the "Guy" in a "classic leading-man kind of way." His simple request: "Just let me be the guy here." A real guy, taking the anecdotes Richmond relates as sign-posts, drives a motorcycle and/or a black car with leather interior, alternates between cursing and punching people who "disrespect" him or any of his "boys," does 180s on busy Los Angeles streets during the day. And he does...
...complaints from students who would not be present for the referendum--notably members of the Harvard football team, the Glee Club and the Band, who must leave early to prepare for The Game with Yale this weekend--HDS will issue "absentee ballots" on an individual basis to students who request them...
...Force General Edward G. Lansdale, an ex-CIA operative who had been involved in the U.S. assassination plots against Castro, and asked if he would go to Saigon and help "get rid" of Diem. Lansdale says he turned down the President's invitation. Was Kennedy making a thinly veiled request for Diem's head? Historian Schlesinger makes the pertinent point: "When politicians talk about getting rid of someone, this does not mean they want to murder them...
...attorneys' efforts to save his life. They had planned to argue that Kaczynski suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, which made him incapable of the intent necessary for him to be held legally responsible for the crimes. But now U.S. District Court Judge Garland Burrell Jr. is weighing a prosecution request to bar all expert psychiatric testimony, leaving his defense in tatters...
...21st century will have to take a backseat to Senate tradition. That's the lesson Senator Mike Enzi (R., Wyo.) learned last week when his request to bring a computer to the floor for note taking was soundly rejected by the Rules Committee. "We didn't start out with laptops," says chairman John Warner (R., Va.), "and I don't think...