Word: stephen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...greatest threat to the President, however, is the showdown over Kennedy's notes, even though legal experts tend to side with the White House. Says Stephen Gillers, a professor of legal ethics at New York University Law School: "I would be reluctant to go into court if I were the Senate committee, because I think I would lose." Right or wrong, however, just by pressing his case the President risks losing in another forum, the court of public opinion...
...VARIOUS ARTISTS Color and Light: Jazz Sketches on Sondheim (Sony Classical). High-energy Broadway show music meets low-key cool jazz on this sleek, satisfying album, as such top performers as bassist Christian McBride and trumpeter Terence Blanchard sensuously redefine and rejuvenate the work of Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim...
Stone typically bites and claws at his subjects, then spits out phantasmagoric movie melodrama--terrific stuff like Platoon and JFK. This time he's almost mellow. The script, which he wrote with Stephen J. Rivele and Christopher Wilkinson, argues that Nixon had a dark role in anti-Castro mischief; the Cuba connection keeps echoing. The movie also nails him for the Cambodian bombing that set in motion the destruction of a beautiful country. Oddly, Stone doesn't find Nixon guilty of starting the Vietnam War or killing John Kennedy. He does pock the film with right-wing poobahs who anticipate...
...Crimson should be commended for describing the advances made by Brian Blais and Ed Smith over the last two semesters to produce better accountability in the Committee Fund. These problems will not recur. Again, though, these problems from previous councils do not in any way affect the grant allocations. --Stephen Weinberg, '99, Grants Secretary, Finance Committee
Other Crimson athletes also fared well in the invitational. Junior Stephen Brannon finished second in the pole vault. The 4x400 relay team took home first place, and freshman Kenneth Hughes's mark of 15.34 in the shot put was the best in the competition...