Open Congress : News Articles for S.1965 Startup Act of 2011

Sidney Barthwell, Former Classmate, Predicts Trouble For Romney When Debating Obama

2012-05-29T19:58:52Z

Barthwell, 64, was the only black member of Romney's 1965 class at Cranbrook Schools and later attended Harvard Law School with Obama. He identifies himself as being politically independent, has donated money to both campaigns and has ...

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Amazon in danger as Brazil moves forward with bill, critics say

2012-05-28T21:33:07Z

The update to the country's 1965 Forestry Code would reduce both the amount of vegetation landowners must preserve and the future penalties paid for those who currently flout environmental laws. After valuable wood is sold, much of the land in ...

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Obituary: Henry Denker / Prolific playwright, novelist known for radio drama

2012-05-28T00:04:38Z

Writer Fulton Oursler borrowed the title of "The Greatest Story Ever Told" for a 1949 book about the life of Jesus, which became the basis for director George Stevens's 1965 film of the same name. Mr. Denker's 1956 court-martial drama (written with Ralph .

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Henry Denker, Prolific Playwright and Novelist, Dies at 99

2012-05-23T23:33:35Z

Writer Fulton Oursler borrowed the title of "The Greatest Story Ever Told" for a 1949 book about the life of Jesus, which became the basis for director George Stevens's 1965 film of the same name. In 1982, Denker told The Washington Post that he gave up ..

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Ryan Truesdell: Unearthing the Cool

2012-05-23T03:45:18Z

Kate McGarry sings it now, convincingly in character. “Look to the Rainbow” is an arrangement never used for the title track of Astrud Gilberto’s 1965 recording. Gilberto sang it with just a rhythm section and flute. Now the full 12-piece ...

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"Credenda"/My Short Career as a High School Revolutionary

2012-05-21T19:54:03Z

We also read and wrote about Ebony Magazine's 1965 still-resonant piece, the marvelous "The White Problem in America". It turned on its head -- and rightly, of course -- the then usual phrase. Overall, the training was useful and reified for me ...

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Gavin Newsom, Cory Booker and the Struggle for Urban America

2012-05-21T04:59:16Z

It tries to fit Booker into Lindsay’s 1965 Time magazine image despite Booker being African-American rather than upper-crust WASP, Newark not being New York City, and the federal government’s retrenchment from investment in inner-city America.

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Table Talk: When A Presidential Candidate Is Accused Of Bullying

2012-05-18T18:17:23Z

and what other boys might go along with at a school like [Romney's], 1965 was different [from 2012]; but memory and empathy are not qualities that have only been invented since then." On The New York Times’s Motherlode blog, KJ Dell’Antonia ...

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Blair Lee: Make me wanna holler

2012-05-18T00:16:29Z

2. Assassination attempt The Washington Post reached a new low in corrupt journalism last week with its front-page, 5,000-word expose of Mitt Romney’s 1965 high school hijinks. Yes, Post reporters had to travel back 47 years to find an ...

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Brian Chase of Bisnar | Chase Personal Injury Attorneys Named 2012 Southern California Super Lawyer

2012-05-17T16:38:21Z

He is the author of “Still Unsafe at Any Speed”, the most comprehensive literary work on auto defects since Ralph Nader’s 1965 book of the same subject, “Unsafe at Any Speed”, and is a frequent lecturer for various trade organizations where he ..

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Cannes Film Festival: Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom

2012-05-16T13:54:54Z

It's 1965, the rainy end of summer on the rocky, isle-strewn coast of New England. Sam (Jared Gelman), a scrawny, bespectacled outcast with an unusual aptitude for cartography, disappears from the Khaki Scout camp supervised by Scout Master Randy Ward ...

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Afghan Whigs reunite

2012-05-13T21:00:48Z

The Afghan Whigs subsequently released two CDs for national label Elektra, while Sub Pop issued the vinyl versions, and the final one for Columbia, 1998’s 1965. Since then, Curley has run Cincinnati’s Ultrasuede Studio, where currently ...

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Liberty's Wiesen Attempts History

2012-05-12T22:27:53Z

Wiesen never pitched in the game. The five major league players to play every position in one game are: Cesar Tovar (Twins 1968), Bert Campenaris (Athletic's 1965), Jose Oquendo (Cardinals 1988), Scott Shelden (Rangers 2000), and Shane Halter (Tigers 2000)

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Willard Romney's Gay Bashing Problem

2012-05-12T08:51:50Z

You heard right. It's 1965 and preppie Willard Romney had no concern and no clue that a swishy looking kid he happened to attack with scissors might be gay? This one makes Bill Clinton's "didn't inhale" dodge seem almost credible. I was there ...

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Former Romney Classmate Describes ‘Bullying Supreme’ – A ‘Pack of Dogs’ Who Targeted ‘Different’ Boy

2012-05-10T18:19:43Z

A high school classmate of presidential candidate Mitt Romney told ABC News today that he considers a particular prank the two pulled at Michigan’s Cranbrook School to be “assault and battery” and that he witnessed Romney hold the scissors ...

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Former Romney Classmate Describes 'Bullying Supreme' - A 'Pack of Dogs' Who Targeted 'Different' Boy

2012-05-10T18:19:43Z

Mitt Romney's 1965 high school yearbook photo from the Cranbrook School. Image Credit: Seth Poppel/Yearbook Library A high school classmate of presidential candidate Mitt Romney told ABC News today that he considers a particular prank pulled at Michigan's

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Mitt Romney forcibly cut the hair of a flamboyant fellow prep student: report

2012-05-10T13:40:33Z

They say that at the end of the school’s 1965 spring break, Romney spotted Lauber walking around campus with beached-blond hair that draped over one eye, according to the paper. “He can’t look like that. That’s wrong. Just look at him!”

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Dodgers, fans welcome a new era

2012-05-08T02:44:21Z

At the end of one of those silly something-cam gags that they show on the video board in left field, which was accompanied by The Lovin' Spoonful's 1965 hit Do You Believe in Magic, the camera panned to Johnson himself, seated in the front row ...

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At the Kirkland Museum, a risk on behalf of fine Colorado art

2012-05-05T02:33:36Z

The definition is broad enough to run from Henry Elkins' traditional take on "The Rocky Mountains" from 1875 to Charles Stewart Stobie's 1888 impressionist "Indians Along the Platte River" to William Sanderson's 1965 biblical-based "Flight Into Egypt."

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At the Kirkland Museum, a risk on behalf of fine Colorado art

2012-05-04T03:03:25Z

Readers recommend: songs about parks – results

2012-05-03T06:53:40Z

Chicago soulster Billy Stewart's 1965 hit Sitting in the Park set the bar high for such songs. "Hope over experience, keeps him sitting in the park waiting for her," says LittleRiver. "Pretty, pretty song." Ticking a few of the same boxes is Gentlemen of .

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Brazil Lower House Passes Forest Bill After Year of Negotiations

2012-04-25T19:49:05Z

The legislation was approved in a 274-184 vote and updates the nation’s 1965 forestry code, according to a final count in the Congress’ lower house. The bill may still have some changes after lawmakers proposals of amendments before heading ...

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Deadlock Over Syria

2012-04-25T10:52:13Z

Patrick Seale’s 1965 classic, The Struggle for Syria, describes the battle for control of that country after the second world war (1). It was played out against the background of the cold war, but also within the context of the struggle for ...

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Where IT is going: Cloud, mobile, and data

2012-04-23T19:44:18Z

Cloud computing in this sense embodies all the big changes in back-end computation. Many of these relate to Moore's Law, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore's 1965 observation that the number of transistors it's economically possible to build into an ...

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For Obama Crowd, Judicial Activism Suddenly Isn't Cool Anymore

2012-04-22T11:45:53Z

Likewise, Justice Hugo Black refused to join the Court’s 1965 ruling that the Constitution protects personal privacy, because it relied on “cases from which this Court recoiled after the 1930s, and which had been, I thought, totally discredited.”

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'60s TV star returns to Pittsburgh

2012-04-22T04:29:14Z

“She bridged the gap for female characters between the 1950s and ‘70s,” said Barbara Feldon, the Bethel Park-bred actress who played Agent 99 during the show’s 1965 to 1970 run. Five years before Mary Tyler Moore tossed her tam into the Minneapolis

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Clackamas Rep to lead off summer season with well-matched 'Odd Couple'

2012-04-12T01:27:49Z

Apr 11, 2012 (The Oregonian - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Neil Simon's 1965 play "The Odd Couple" is a touchstone of American comedy. It's also one of those entertainment properties that's become so familiar (through a ...

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Congress members call for White House action against discrimination

2012-04-11T14:43:34Z

In an April 3 letter to the White House, they urged Obama to expand on President Lyndon Johnson’s 1965 order that prohibited contractors from discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. “The opportunity to ...

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Clackamas Rep to lead off summer season with well-matched 'Odd Couple'

2012-04-11T09:57:14Z

Neil Simon’s 1965 play “The Odd Couple” is a touchstone of American comedy. It’s also one of those entertainment properties that’s become so familiar (through a movie, a TV series and innumerable stage productions) that you might ...

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A visit to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

2012-04-10T20:28:21Z

All are celebrated in full glory. There's everything from Jimi Hendrix's hand-scribbled "Purple Haze" lyrics to Janis Joplin's 1965 psychedelic-painted Porsche. If your memory is starting to dim, that's because rock turns 60 this year in its hometown.

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Donovan: Psychedelic singer-songwriter looked inward while the '60s swirled around him (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2012)

2012-04-10T06:02:12Z

"We felt a kinship. As Dylan says about Donovan in 'Don't Look Back' [D.A. Pennebaker's documentary about Dylan's 1965 U.K. tour], 'Hey! He sounds like Jack!' Yeah! I said, 'Boy, this guy has been listening to his Jack Elliott very carefully.'

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Identifying who's poor in Minnesota and why

2012-04-09T00:26:57Z

“We have proven steadfast in being able to ignore the poverty in our midst,’’ despite President Lyndon Johnson’s 1965 declaration of war on poverty. Nichol is director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Caroli

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Overnight News Digest

2012-04-08T23:51:09Z

hinting he could take a stand as tough as Charles de Gaulle's 1965 "empty chair" policy. The conservative leader told the weekly Journal du Dimanche in an interview that he meant business with an election campaign pledge last month to push for a ...

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Carlson: Gas pump glitch is a test of our ethics

2012-04-08T23:01:03Z

Huh? It shows 39 cents a gallon. The place down the street is selling gas for $3.90 and the meter on this pump is clicking along, reading like it’s 1965. You’re wondering if you should hurry home and watch the “Ed Sullivan Show” or “My ...

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Sarkozy says he is serious for trade protectionism

2012-04-08T21:42:18Z

PARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy told a Sunday newspaper he is serious about pushing for more trade protectionism in Europe and tighter external border controls, hinting he could take a stand as tough as Charles de Gaulle’s 1965 “empty chair”

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Sarkozy dangles ‘empty chair’ threat

2012-04-08T19:47:47Z

PARIS: French President Nicolas Sarkozy said he is serious about pushing for more trade protectionism in Europe and tighter external border controls, hinting he could take a stand as tough as Charles de Gaulle's 1965 “empty chair” policy. The ...

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Sarkozy serious about push for greater protectionism

2012-04-08T15:22:55Z

Paris: French President Nicolas Sarkozy told a newspaper yesterday he is serious about pushing for more trade protectionism in Europe and tighter external border controls, hinting he could take a stand as tough as Charles de Gaulle's 1965 "empty chair" pol

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Carlson: Gas pump glitch is a test of our ethics

2012-04-08T04:45:50Z

It shows 39 cents a gallon. The place down the street is selling gas for $3.90 and the meter on this pump is clicking along, reading like it’s 1965. You’re wondering if you should hurry home and watch the “Ed Sullivan Show” or “My ...

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Sarkozy Dangles ‘Empty Chair’ Threat Over Europe

2012-04-07T18:15:54Z

French President Nicolas Sarkozy told a Sunday newspaper he is serious about pushing for more trade protectionism in Europe and tighter external border controls, hinting he could take a stand as tough as Charles de Gaulle's 1965 "empty chair" policy.

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Sarkozy dangles "empty chair" threat over Europe

2012-04-07T17:25:48Z

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy told a Sunday newspaper he is serious about pushing for more trade protectionism in Europe and tighter external border controls, hinting he could take a stand as tough as Charles de Gaulle's 1965 "empty ..

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Identifying who’s poor in Minnesota and why

2012-04-05T19:58:30Z

US supreme court healthcare hearing, day three: panel opinion

2012-03-29T11:45:43Z

Medicaid is the product of a voluntary agreement between Congress and the states to jointly carry out a program of medical assistance for the poor that evolved from previous federal/state health care partnerships predating Medicaid's 1965 enactment.

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City Auto Sales in Hueytown moving to old Neil Bonnett Honda site

2012-03-28T08:40:47Z

Hueytown was home to the Alabama Gang and officials said the dealership will try and capture that nostalgia. Bonnett's 1965 Chevrolet Chevelle race car will be among the memorabilia on site, officials said. The car had been at the Hall of Fame ...

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Mayor kicks off $29.5 million Central Library reconstruction

2012-03-28T07:22:03Z

"I think the community is going to be very pleased with it 18 months from now." The ceremony featured the removal of the library's 1965 cornerstone, which will be reused in the reconstruction. The cornerstone protected a time capsule holding books ...

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Editorial: Sharpton, Angelou offer messages of hope, courage

2012-03-26T04:54:06Z

The closest he came to anything political in addressing the faithful was an allusion to having just re-created the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1965 civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, in part, to protest Alabama’s new voter ...

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Editorial: Sharpton, Angelou offer messages of hope, courage

2012-03-26T00:07:46Z

Editorial: Sharpton, Angelou offer messages of hope, courage

2012-03-26T00:07:46Z

Editorial: Sharpton, Angelou offer messages of hope, courage

2012-03-26T00:07:46Z

Dan Kane's entertainment spotlight: 'The Sound of Music'

2012-03-24T06:15:12Z

The beloved movie musical “The Sound of Music” will be shown at 2 p.m. Sunday at downtown Canton’s Palace Theatre. In celebration of the theater’s 85th anniversary, admission is 85 cents. Angeloa Bellios of WHBC will host the screening, and there .

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Indian Wells man offers $20K reward after prized Chevelle stolen

2012-03-22T15:00:08Z

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Ed Carter's 1965 Chevrolet Chevelle can call Detective Juan Jimenez at the Palm Springs Police Department at (760) 323-8129 or Ed Carter at (510) 325-6842. INDIAN WELLS — Every time Ed Carter slid ...

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Seeking a lost treasure

2012-03-22T03:47:15Z

Top 16 college basketball teams of all time

2012-03-22T03:04:18Z

Walton was 21 of 22 from the field and finished with 44 points, breaking ex-UCLA star Gail Goodrich's 1965 title game record of 42. Walton also grabbed 13 boards in the rout of Memphis State. Another worth noting: Jamaal (Keith) Wilkes -- While it was ...

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Suburban theater for the week of March 23-29

2012-03-21T20:09:07Z

Friday through April 14 at Village Theatre Guild, 3S020 Park Blvd., Glen Ellyn; $18 at 630-469-8230 or villagetheatreguild.org "Black Comedy": Peter Shaffer's 1965 farce about a struggling artist juggling visits from his fiancee's stiff-necked ...

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Royal treatment: Swampscott’s Dwyer returns for second year in Kansas City organization

2012-03-20T19:41:41Z

In 2009, he was drafted in the fourth round by the Royals, becoming the first freshman to be drafted since the draft’s 1965 inception. Before 2009 let out, he had pitched in four games for the Idaho Falls Royals of the Pioneer (Rookie) League.

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'Beyond these chambers are the people we serve'

2012-03-20T10:01:51Z

In doing some research, I have come across this video, Lyndon B. Johnson's 1965 State of the Union address, in which he talks about the clutches of poverty. The way he says "clutches" sends the hair up from my arms. The whole speech was so fierce and ...

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Bishops Double Down on Attacks on Women's Freedom

2012-03-16T13:34:11Z

Nearly 20 years later, Cardinal Cushing had a change of heart. Just prior to the Supreme Court's 1965 decision in Griswold v. Connecticut that rendered the controversy moot, Cushing entered into what he called a "friendly discussion with those ...

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Brazil Slowing Forest Destruction Cuts Greenhouse Gas Burden

2012-03-13T11:00:16Z

Brazil is now in danger of backtracking because of a proposed overhaul to the country’s 1965 Forest Code, which requires farmers to keep as much as 80 percent of their land as forest, environmentalists say. Brazil’s House and Senate have ...

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Brazil Slowing Forest Destruction Cuts Greenhouse Gas Burden

2012-03-13T10:38:47Z

Brazil Slowing Forest Destruction Cuts Greenhouse Gas Burden

2012-03-13T09:12:53Z

Sharpton helps mark New Life anniversary (With Video)

2012-03-12T11:15:46Z

Continued... The 2004 presidential candidate did not venture into politics on the pulpit other than to mention that last week he joined a recreation of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1965 civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery ...

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Sharpton helps mark New Life anniversary

2012-03-11T22:36:59Z

The 2004 presidential candidate did not venture into politics on the pulpit other than to mention that last week he joined a recreation of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1965 civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, in part, to protest ...

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'Honor' focuses on torture in the Philippines

2012-03-08T18:55:54Z

Jones' "Honor in the Dust" improves on Schott's 1965 narrative by providing copious footnotes and reference material that will help researchers for years to come. Contact Charles Ealy at 445-3931   (Disclosure: American-Statesman books editor Charles .

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'Honor' focuses on torture in the Philippines

2012-03-08T18:55:54Z

A Call To Arms,” Not Just A March Reinactment

2012-03-08T10:49:09Z

The current march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama — on the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s 1965 civil rights procession — is not just a reenactment, but a “call to arms” in the face of draconian voter ID laws and anti-immigrant legislation.

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White Heat gets its music out of time

2012-03-08T10:41:59Z

IT'S 1965 and in a student house in London, there's a poster on the wall that reads: The Personal Is Political, which sums up the theme of this new drama series. Every chat this group has is loaded with historical significance - the Pill, smoking dope ..

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Five to join Idaho Athletic Hall of Fame

2012-03-07T02:00:37Z

Going into this season he had an overall record of 500-212 with three state titles. Fealko, 64, was a starter on Mullan’s 1965 state championship team and went on to play at the University of Idaho. He coached 16 years at Coeur d’Alene and ...

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Warner touts area's economic potential in local stop

2012-03-02T20:28:55Z

Sen. Mark R. Warner said Friday that the Charlottesville region would be one of the biggest beneficiaries in the state if his legislative efforts to boost startup companies are successful. “Charlottesville is going to gain more from this kind ...

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Basil Valdez comes full circle

2012-03-02T08:47:25Z

The lyrics of Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s 1965 movie theme song transfixed him like a worded symphony: “Are we meant to take more than we give—or are we meant to be kind?” After a gentle push from Fr. Antonio Cuna, S.J., his ...

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Santorum's attack on women just 'silly

2012-03-02T07:35:50Z

One Survivor-Dwarf not voted off The Island yet is "Holy" (Rick Santorum). Holy wants to erase the U.S. Supreme Court's 1965 ruling that women's and men's constitutional right to privacy includes freedom to use birth control. Last year ...

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Moran sees ‘window of opportunity’ for legislation to aid entrepreneurs

2012-03-01T15:15:09Z

U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., has been talking for a while about legislation he says is necessary to give entrepreneurs and small-business owners more access to capital and talent. He and Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., introduced late last year a bill they call

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Norwell Charter changes before the state

2012-03-01T11:26:05Z

Changes to the Norwell Town Charter could be as close as the upcoming annual town election in May. According to Norwell Government Study Committee member Dan Collins, the Charter Revision is currently in the Legislature as Senate Bill 1965. “It is ...

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If Republican Primary Hurts GOP Brand, Obama’s Continued Vulnerability Should Terrify Democrats

2012-02-28T15:38:59Z

There have been academic studies that back up the assertion that divisive primaries can hurt candidate. Andrew Hacker’s 1965 work “‘Does a Divisive Primary Harm a Candidate’s Election Chances?” showed that “the candidate emerging ...

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Steve Lunetta: Marriage counts for character

2012-02-27T04:12:59Z

My Uncle Earl’s 1965 Ford Mustang was giving him a little trouble, so we pulled it into the Murder Shed to see what we could do with it. The shed was built in the 1930s by the United States Department of Agriculture to work on tractors that serviced the

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Santorum views

2012-02-27T02:25:36Z

Santorum’s attacks on women (he opposes the Supreme Court’s 1965 striking of bans on contraceptives), on gay rights and equality preserves fundamentalist authoritarian social structures and puritanical sexual attitudes (sex is for procreation only).

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Santorum views

2012-02-27T00:59:43Z

How Love Lasts: Part I

2012-02-23T08:35:25Z

It's 1965, the year Cheryl and Bill were engaged. Right before he proposed, he sat down with our mother, who looked at him with uncharacteristic seriousness and asked him, "Are you sure?" And he said with uncharacteristic certitude, "Yes." It's 2012 ...

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Jeff Gerritt: Malcolm X returns in an inspiring exhibit

2012-02-23T01:54:34Z

He bought the unpublished manuscripts -- omitted from Malcolm X's 1965 autobiography -- at an auction in 1992. The exhibit also will display, among other things, Nation of Islam documents; Rosa Parks' arrest record and fingerprints; slave estate ...

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A Bright Idea: Invite Worship Groups Evicted from Public Schools to Worship in Shuttered Catholic Churches

2012-02-21T15:47:18Z

with the kind of ecumenism that is spelled out in Pope Paul VI's 1965 Nostra Aetate: Likewise, other religions found everywhere try to counter the restlessness of the human heart, each in its own manner, by proposing "ways," comprising teachings ...

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Heralded Books Get It All Wrong

2012-02-21T06:00:19Z

the war on poverty in Michael Harrington’s 1962 “The Other America,” environmentalism in Rachel Carson’s 1962 “Silent Spring,” feminism in Betty Friedan’s 1963 “The Feminine Mystique,” consumerism in Ralph Nader’s 1965 ...

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Heralded Books Get It All Wrong

2012-02-21T05:53:09Z

A Bright Idea: Invite Worship Groups Evicted from Public Schools to Worship in Shuttered Catholic Churches

2012-02-20T18:54:36Z

Fall looks wearable, sellable

2012-02-12T18:35:27Z

level. Colorblocked garments have geometric chunks of bright colors and have been fashion staples since Yves Saint Laurent’s 1965 collection inspired by Dutch painter Piet Mondrian. Richard Chai Richard Chai turned menswear into powerful looks ...

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Accidental discovery expands story

2012-02-10T01:19:52Z

There's a 72-page scrapbook of Malcolm X's life that was maintained by Jarvis until after his friend's 1965 assassination. One of the civil rights era's most controversial and compelling figures, Malcolm X rose to fame as the chief spokesman of the Nation

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BCBG offers soothing start to NY Fashion Week

2012-02-09T17:56:03Z

Colorblocked garments have geometric chunks of bright colors and have been fashion staples since Yves Saint Laurent's 1965 collection inspired by Dutch painter Piet Mondrian. Model Erin Wasson sat on the other side of the catwalk at BCBG ...

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Africa: The Contest Over Peace and Security in Africa

2012-02-07T04:15:14Z

But these interventions were chiefly about power, not human rights. Remarkably little appears to have changed since Tom Lehrer's 1965 satirical song, "Send the Marines", which contains the lines: "They've got to be protected/All their rights respected ...

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Dylan’s jacket, worn at a watershed event in music history, added to American History museum exhibit.

2012-02-06T18:56:53Z

The debate over Bob Dylan’s 1965 Newport Folk Festival set — yes, that appearance, the one with an electric guitar that was considered a watershed in music history — will probably be rekindled this spring at the National Museum of American History.

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TT: Just because

2012-02-05T14:47:32Z

Caedmon's 1965 studio recording of Montgomery Clift performing the closing scene of The Glass Menagerie. The music, by Paul Bowles, was used in the original 1945 stage production: An abridged radio performance of the first part of The Glass Menagerie ...

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Accidental discovery expands story of '2 Malcolms"

2012-02-05T02:51:42Z

Berlinale 10-pic retro reflects studio's kaleidoscopic output

2012-02-04T07:10:35Z

The DEFA era is repped by Kurt Maetzig's 1965 drama "The Rabbit Is Me," a film that was quickly banned by the government for encouraging discussion of democratic principles in East Germany. Also unspooling is Konrad Wolf's 1971 "Goya," an East German ...

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Ditka upstaged by Colosi at Hornung award banquet

2012-02-03T15:32:51Z

In 1961, he set the record for the most points scored in an NFL Championship game. In Green Bay's 1965 championship win, he rushed for 105 yards and a touchdown on a very muddy field against the Cleveland Browns. Paul Hornung holds the record ...

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I feel like we’re being invaded, like it’s 1965 all over again”

2012-02-02T17:21:25Z

Those are the words of Astin Jacobo, a buscon from the Dominican Republic. He, and many like him, are not at all pleased about what appears to be inevitable: Major League Baseball expanding the draft to the D.R.. Or maybe it is, um, evitable.

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Historical discovery expands story of Malcolm X's life

2012-02-01T09:37:18Z

Malcolm X trove found

2012-02-01T05:12:27Z

There's a 72-page scrapbook of Malcolm X's life that was maintained by Jarvis until after his friend's 1965 assassination. Lawrence Mamiya, a Vassar College professor of religion and Africana studies, said there's no doubt that the two Malcolms ...

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Detroit group helps purchase Malcolm X documents that expand '2 Malcolms' story

2012-01-31T13:34:43Z

Designing Pulp Fiction

2012-01-28T10:46:28Z

Two of my favorites from the classic era are Herb Alpert's 1965 "Whipped Cream & Other Delights" and the Louvin Brothers' 1959 album "Satan Is Real." In 2006, I had the honor of re-interpreting the album art for "Whipped Cream" when Herb Alpert released ..

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Christopher Bram's 6 favorite books

2012-01-27T11:30:37Z

Capote's 1965 true-crime story remains fresh and startling because of the beauty of its prose and the breadth of Capote's sympathetic imagination. He was able to connect with all the lives here: macho killers, good-citizen victims, even the police.

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CAMEO Reports: All Eyes on Very Small Business - Congress Considers 11 Micro-related …

2012-01-26T14:09:17Z

After researching bills in Congress, CAMEO - California Association for Micro Enterprise Opportunity – has found 11 micro-related bills in Congress that will be considered for this session that will help very small businesses. In the same week as ...

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Zimbabwe: Politics and Violence

2012-01-26T01:09:02Z

When Abel Muzorewa and his like-minded advocated for a violence-free road to freedom after Ian Smith's 1965 Unilateral Declaration of Independence, the majority of Zimbabweans were of the revolutionary conviction that an independent Zimbabwe was ...

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'Boeing-Boeing,' gone: Promethean play to close Sunday

2012-01-25T18:28:10Z

Its first London run lasted seven years – they do love farce in England, hence the career of Ray Cooney – though the play's 1965 Broadway run lasted just 23 performances. The farce about an architect juggling three flight-attendant fiancées ...

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Warner urges administration support for Startup Act

2012-01-25T18:06:41Z

U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) and Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) today invited President Obama to join them in helping startups and small businesses succeed. In December, Sens. Moran and Warner introduced legislation called The Startup Act (S. 1965 ...

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Wallowa County's longtime Alpenfest resurrected, set for September

2012-01-24T20:38:12Z

Also planned: yodeling, crafts and a screening of Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1965 musical, "The Sound of Music," starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. Alpenfest's original organizers got tired of putting it on and dropped the festival ...

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Is Obama Trying To Replace The Pope?

2012-01-24T19:55:15Z

And the Warren Court's 1965 Griswold decision, overturning the arrest and fining of New Haven contraception providers, was based on the 14th Amendment's prohibition of "any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United Stat

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Clever and playful time warp back to Andy Warhol's 1965 thanks to the theater group Gob Squad

2012-01-24T19:19:27Z

NEW YORK — Can a modern-day troupe of European performance artists capture the ennui of privileged, avant-garde artistes and hangers-on during a hot New York City summer in 1965, in the midst of social upheaval that included civil rights ...

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An exhaustingly entertaining ride

2012-01-24T17:03:27Z

None is more impudent than Jean-Luc Godard’s 1965 “Alphaville, Une Etrange Aventure de Lemmy Caution” (Alphaville: A Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution). This rigorously unconventional movie, which walked away with the Golden Bear at that year’s ..

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BRISTOL BITS: Catching up with a former classmate

2012-01-22T22:13:38Z

Don Soucy, Mary Gagnon and her sister, Cathie Bernosky Flores, and Mrs. Donald Deveau responded. Don turned me to Bristol Central’s 1965 yearbook for Roland Levesque and Mrs.Deveau, Roland’s aunt, told me she has a picture of Roland in uniform.

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Listening Post /Brief reviews of select releases

2012-01-22T06:07:16Z

In the lifetime of a floating band constantly shifting personnel, more than a few Mothers did their inventive best for the late Frank Zappa—master guitarist, enigmatic composer, satirical lyricist— since that band’s 1965 start. Arguably ...

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Sundance 2012: Spike Lee Talks 'Red Hook Summer,' His Feature Debut at the Festival (Q&A)

2012-01-20T10:55:58Z

Malcolm X (1992): One of four collaborations with star Denzel Washington, Lee's searing portrayal of slain activist Malcolm X, based largely on Alex Haley's 1965 biography, earned its star an Oscar nomination for best actor and brought in more than $48 ...

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Cranko’s ‘Onegin’ opens SF Ballet season

2012-01-19T20:01:11Z

Opera audiences in The City have seen and heard Tchaikovsky’s 1879 “Eugene Onegin” dozens of blissful times, but John Cranko’s 1965 “Onegin,” opening next week, is a San Francisco Ballet premiere. The famed late director of the Stuttgart Ballet

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Cranko’s ‘Onegin’ opens SF Ballet season

2012-01-19T20:01:11Z

Cranko’s ‘Onegin’ opens SF Ballet season

2012-01-18T18:57:56Z

Speakers at King event push different legislative priorities

2012-01-17T12:54:03Z

House Speaker Mike Hubbard, R-Auburn, quoted King's 1965 speech "How Long? Not Long," which like Hubbard's comments were delivered on the steps of the state Capitol. The speaker indirectly referenced a GOP proposal to bring charter schools to ...

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San Francisco Police Make Arrest in Stolen Picasso Drawing from Weinstein Gallery

2012-01-15T01:22:04Z

The car was seized a day after an unidentified but smartly dressed thief stole Picasso's 1965 pencil drawing "Tete de Femme," which translates as "head of a woman," according to the Weinstein Gallery. A man in dark glasses walked into the gallery and ...

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Abstraction in American Art Draws Crowds

2012-01-14T07:06:51Z

The show also appeals to a variety of art fans – from a preschooler who saw Edna Andrade’s big op art work and exclaimed, “I love this one” to a more mature group making observations about Robert Motherwell’s 1965 piece “Sea of Biarritz.”

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Martin Luther King Jr.: April 26, 1967, Cleveland speech, annotated

2012-01-13T21:19:53Z

For another use of the streetsweeper allusion, read a story about King's 1965 speech in Jamaica. Set out to do a good job and do that job so well that nobody can do it any better. If it falls your lot to be a streetsweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo

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Tim Tebow's public expressions of Christian beliefs ignite conversation about faith and its role in sports

2012-01-12T22:04:01Z

Sandy Koufax, the legendary pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, famously refused to pitch the first game of baseball’s 1965 World Series because it fell on Yom Kippur. He hurled a shutout in the deciding seventh game. Reggie White ...

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Around Town: Foreign films and Spencer Tracy

2012-01-12T08:27:58Z

Later that evening Margaret Cho will present John Schlesinger’s 1965 drama “Darling,” for which Julie Christie won a best actress Oscar. Scheduled for Friday evening is Mike Leigh’s award-winning 1989 “Topsy-Turvey, "introduced by Paul F.

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Turning mockery back upon the mockers

2012-01-10T19:50:23Z

To answer one way is to accept the contorted logic of the Supreme Court's 1965 Griswold v. Connecticut decision, whose chief importance has nothing to do with contraception at all. By ruling unconstitutional a state's almost-never-enforced ban on ...

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Social moral issues in presidential politics

2012-01-10T00:16:25Z

The problem with the headlines is that they are untrue. What Santorum has said is that the Supreme Court’s 1965 decision in Griswold v. Connecticut — which dealt with a case that was a Planned Parenthood official’s stunt — was a bad precedent and b

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Bill Press: With Iowa showing, Santorum gets brief moment in sun

2012-01-08T23:56:08Z

For starters, disagreeing with the Supreme Court's 1965 Griswold v. Connecticut decision, Santorum said states should have the right to ban all forms of contraception. As recently as October he asserted, "One of the things I will talk about ...

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Bill Press: Santorum getting his (brief) moment in sun

2012-01-08T23:48:58Z

For starters, disagreeing with the Supreme Court’s 1965 Griswold v. Connecticut decision, Santorum believes states should have the right to ban all forms of contraception. As recently as last October he asserted: “One of the things I will talk about ..

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Santorum's Success in Iowa Impacts New Hampshire Polling

2012-01-08T11:17:21Z

Santorum criticized the Supreme Court's 1965 ruling preventing states from illegalizing contraception, according to the Huffington Post. As president he would "repeal Obamacare mandate for contraception services in healthcare plans," and increase funding .

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Literary liberators look back at America's bohemian circus

2012-01-08T05:48:04Z

In Sanders' pages, you'll find Burroughs too, along with Abbie Hoffman, Frank O'Hara, Norman Mailer, Jerry Rubin and, among other denizens and stalwarts of Buffalo's 1965 Spring Arts Festival and University at Buffalo English Department ...

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Measuring Lafayette recovery

2012-01-08T03:17:45Z

The monthly sales to which the Lafayette Parish School Board's 1965 1-cent sales tax is applied grew 15 percent in the year ending in June and topped $450 million. And Lafayette got all that good ink for having gross domestic product growth of 8 ...

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Santorum on Birth Control

2012-01-06T16:34:41Z

A good roasting at the stake?” The problem with the headlines is that they are untrue. What Santorum has said is that the Supreme Court’s 1965 decision in Griswold v. Connecticut — which dealt with a case that was a Planned Parenthood official’s ..

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A preview of early 2012 books

2012-01-05T15:38:36Z

Now it’s 1965, and the Demidovs have been invited on a “Peace Tour” of the United States. Tragedy strikes quickly in “Agent 6” (Grand Central, $25.99), and Leo hunts the attacker that struck at the heart of his family on foreign soil. Out Monday

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Santorum gets his (brief) moment in the sun

2012-01-05T15:24:17Z

For starters, disagreeing with the Supreme Court's 1965 Griswold v. Connecticut decision, Santorum believes states should have the right to ban all forms of contraception. As recently as last October he asserted: "One of the things I will talk ...

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O’Reilly Challenges Rick Santorum On Opposition To Birth Control

2012-01-05T08:21:57Z

But that’s not entirely honest and here is why: Santorum does disagree with the Supreme Court’s 1965 Griswold v. Connecticut ruling (which struck down a law that criminalized the use of contraceptives by married couples) and believes that ...

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Sex and Santorum

2012-01-04T17:41:29Z

Now Rick Santorum, whose frankness gives us an education in what “moral values” is really about, at least for a significant number of people: Santorum has long opposed the Supreme Court’s 1965 ruling “that invalidated a Connecticut law b ...

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Harry Fowler obituary

2012-01-04T13:23:47Z

and later as Harry Danvers in the heaven-sent Our Man at St Mark's (1965-66). These and later series including World's End (1981) and Dead Ernest (1982) brought lucrative employment, as did commercials. He still accepted cameo roles in films ...

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Santorum in Your Pants

2012-01-04T11:29:15Z

Discussing the Supreme Court's 1965 ruling that invalidated a Connecticut law banning contraception, he said: The state has a right to do that. I have never questioned that the state has a right to do that. It is not a constitutional right.

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Rick Santorum: Birth Control should be illegal

2012-01-04T10:24:50Z

No, I'm not talking about the latest excellent sales figures out of Chrysler (up 37%, just announced the addition of another 1,100 Michigan workers), Ford (up 10%) and GM (up 5%). No, I'm talking ...

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Rick Santorum: Birth Control should be illegal

2012-01-04T10:24:50Z

Santorum has long opposed the Supreme Court’s 1965 ruling “that invalidated a Connecticut law banning contraception” and has also pledged to completely defund federal funding for contraception if elected president. As he told ...

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Santorum: States Should Have The Right To Outlaw Birth Control

2012-01-03T20:48:47Z

Watch the Jake Tapper interview: Santorum has long opposed the Supreme Court’s 1965 ruling “that invalidated a Connecticut law banning contraception” and has also pledged to completely defundfederal funding for contraception if elected president.

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Rick Santorum: States Should Have Power To Ban Birth Control, Sodomy

2012-01-03T17:06:53Z

In an interview with Jake Tapper on ABC News, Santorum reiterated his opposition to the Supreme Court’s 1965 ruling that prevented Connecticut from banning contraception. “The state has a right to do that, I have never questioned that the ...

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Santorum backs state right to ban birth control

2012-01-03T16:31:05Z

ABC News Jake Tapper asked Santorum about his 2006 statement that he opposed the Supreme Court’s 1965 ruling that invalidated a Connecticut law banning contraception. Santorum said he still held that view. “It is not a constitutional right ...

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Santorum: States Should Have The Right To Outlaw Birth Control

2012-01-02T18:55:26Z

Santorum Explains ’06 Loss, Still Supports State Right to Outlaw Contraception

2012-01-02T18:41:07Z

One issue was Santorum’s opposition to the Supreme Court’s 1965 ruling that invalidated a Connecticut law banning contraception. Santorum said he still feels that a state should be able to make such laws. “The state has a right to do that ...

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Jam-packed box sets appeal to music aficionados

2012-01-01T05:34:54Z

1," Columbia/Legacy, three CDs, one DVD, $33: Drawn from state-owned TV and radio sources in Europe, the set captures rare full-length concerts by the jazz trumpeter's 1965-68 "second great quintet" with Wayne Shorter on sax, Herbie Hancock on ...

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Gone, not forgotten: Pop-culture icons we lost in 2011

2011-12-31T08:56:31Z

It's one take.' So, he said, 'I don't want there to be any idea that there's favoritism here.' " In Russ Meyer's 1965 cult film "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!," Tura Satana displayed her martial arts skills — and her traffic-stopping figure.

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Op-Ed: Catching a spy with Gary Oldman in 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'

2011-12-29T10:46:16Z

Alfredson’s take on the 1974 novel is similar to Martin Ritt’s 1965 adaptation of Carre’s “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold” in the sense that it is dark, serious, eloquent and leaves no room for error. The films keep the theme in line with ...

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Kevin Richert: Long-shot effort could force sales tax debate

2011-12-29T01:49:23Z

(Yes, the Statesman editorial board has favored modernizing Idaho’s 1965 sales tax by removing some exemptions, as part of an overall tax restructuring that includes corporate and personal income tax relief.) The Huntley-Ringo plan doesn’t ...

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Op-Ed: Catching a spy with Gary Oldman in 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'

2011-12-27T19:16:52Z

Op-Ed: Catching a spy with Gary Oldman in 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'

2011-12-27T19:02:33Z

Technology Forecast 2012: Crystal Ball Predictions and Outlook

2011-12-22T16:09:32Z

These tiniest-ever 3D transistor chips are Intel's latest effort to deal with former Chairman Gordon E. Moore's 1965 "Moore's Law" that the number of components in an integrated circuit had doubled every 10 years and would continue "for at least 10 years."

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Technology Forecast 2012: Crystal Ball Predictions and Outlook

2011-12-22T16:09:32Z

Technology Forecast 2012: Crystal Ball Predictions and Outlook

2011-12-22T16:09:32Z

In ‘Next Big Thing’ Start-Ups, Immigrants Dominate Management Ranks

2011-12-20T10:56:56Z

Immigrants have started nearly half of America’s 50 top venture-funded companies and are key members of management or product development teams in almost 75 percent of those companies. Those are the results of a new study by the National ...

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In ‘Next Big Thing’ Start-Ups, Immigrants Dominate Management Ranks

2011-12-20T10:56:56Z

'Clear Day,' Muddled Effort

2011-12-15T16:24:59Z

It's no fun to hammer yet another handful of nails into the coffin of a show that yielded up such numbers as "Come Back to Me," "Hurry! It's Lovely Up Here," "Melinda," "She Wasn't You," "Wait 'Til We're 65," "What Did I Have That I Don't Have ...

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Consumer Protection Redux: The Lessons of History

2011-12-14T01:09:55Z

Her 2007 article that first proposed the agency was entitled, "Unsafe at any Rate." Not only did she take her title from Ralph Nader's 1965 blockbuster, Unsafe at any Speed, Warren noted that the model for "such safety regulation is the U.S. Consumer ...

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On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

2011-12-12T13:08:07Z

On the one hand, I can't wait to hear the cast album that will accompany the revival of Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lane's 1965 On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, since, apart from the glorious score, it has interpolations of other Lane songs you don't ...

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On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

2011-12-12T13:00:57Z

Box it up: Jam-packed CD set collections are great gifts

2011-12-12T03:21:08Z

1; Columbia/Legacy, three CDs, one DVD, $33 Drawn from state-owned TV and radio sources in Europe, the set captures rare full-length concerts by the jazz trumpeter’s 1965-68 “second great quintet” with Wayne Shorter on sax, Herbie Hancock ...

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Gingrich's Sly Strategy: Run Clinton Against Bush

2011-12-06T11:27:51Z

"We can make an honest, legitimate claim that this is the most significant Congress in a generation," said Gingrich, "and you have to go back to Lyndon Johnson's 1965-66 efforts to see a comparable scale of change." And even as he boasts of the record of .

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