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Mo'Nique Writes an Open Letter to Oprah Winfrey, Accuses Her of Unfairly Supporting Harvey Weinstein
February 03, 2020 6:01 PM PST
Mo'Nique is not done with Ms. Oprah!
The comedienne took to Instagram to share an open letter to Mama O, accusing her of showing favoritism towards Harvey Weinstein.
"Russell and Harvey are accused of the same thing so in fairness how do you not "support" the accusers of both as you said you did with R.S. or you look for the silver lining for both like you said you did for H.W.?" she wrote.
She also accuses Oprah of making her own life harder.
Take a look at her full letter below.
Dear @oprah, I felt compelled to write you this open letter after observing the disparity in the way that you seem to treat people, who were accused of the same allegations. You did an interview on the CBS Morning Show and were asked about Harvey Weinstein by Norah O'Donnell, and you said as it pertained to him that you "always try to look at the Rainbow in the clouds, whatever is the "silver lining". You also said "if we make this all about Harvey Weinstein then we have lost the moment". When you either are, or were going to be a part of documentary on Michael Jackson, and Russell Simmons, how is that not making it all about them? Interestingly, Brother M.J. was acquitted, and deceased, so how is he not off limits? Russell and Harvey are accused of the same thing so in fairness how do you not "support" the accusers of both as you said you did with R.S. or you look for the silver lining for both like you said you did for H.W.? The only difference between the two is there skin color and doesn't H.W. have way more accusers? My personal experience with you is you've watched me as a black women be accused of being difficult for not promoting "Precious" internationally for Lions Gate, at Lions Gate, Tyler Perry and your request, despite the fact my deal was with Lee Daniels Entertainment. And, how are you for black women when you hear Tyler on audio saying I was right and he was going to speak up but you or him still haven't said a word? When I was sixteen and I meet you at your local show in Baltimore, I told you I wanted to be just like you when I grew up. You responded, " you have to work really really hard". My sixteen year old self didn't know that you in your silence in the face of wrongdoing, would make my life "harder". Lastly, please consider standing by the people who are right and not just the "right people". Love you to life, Mo'Nique
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HP Extends NT Management with OpenView Express
Earlier this month, Hewlett-Packard Co. released an OpenView product designed to extend the management capabilities of Windows NT to include networked applications.
HP says its new OpenView Express unites application, network, system, and storage management with cross-discipline integration, implementation services, and support.
Application management has become an IT buzzword, and the influx of products claiming to manage applications emphasizes this status. But defining application management can be just as tricky as managing the applications themselves.
Bryan Dean, OpenView Express solution manager at HP, says applications need to be managed across the network. This includes servers, desktops, and all the plumbing in between, as well as the software.
While some applications have a simple client/server relationship, the applications that really need to be managed carefully are the programs that require the whole network to function well, such as Microsoft Exchange.
"If you're just looking at the server, you're not managing the application," Dean says.
The OpenView Express solution includes three components: OmniBack for NT storage management software; Network Node Manager 250 for NT network management software; and Manage X, application and system management software. The combined components also ship with a cross-discipline integration package.
According to Cathy Fitzgerald, general manager of HP's OpenView Express division, the product is designed to facilitate quicker problem isolation and resolution by integrating information across management disciplines in areas such as event correlation, thresholds, alarming, and reporting.
OpenView Express also has two of what HP refers to as extended solutions -- essentially software snap-ins that extend the functionality of the overall product. The extended solutions include a Microsoft Exchange management Smart Plug-in and HP OpenView Service Desk.
The Exchange tool provides more control over Microsoft Exchange. HP OpenView Service Desk delivers help-desk capabilities and proactive support.
"We have several snap-ins that are going to be coming out in the future, such as one for Lotus Notes," Fitzgerald says.
HP is aiming OpenView Express at the midmarket, defined by HP as companies generating between $50 million and $1 billion in revenue. Dataquest (www.dataquest.com), a market research firm, estimates revenue generated by network systems management vendors within this market segment will grow to $5 billion by 2002.
Stephen Elliott, an analyst at Dataquest, confirms that there is a need for OpenView Express in this market segment because companies traditionally have had to choose between expensive, overwhelming frameworks and point products that offer less functionality created by smaller start-up companies.
In the case of frameworks, the complexity of deployment and use, as well as the price points, make the software unrealistic for middle-market companies.
HP's OpenView Express, on the other hand, sells at a base price under $18,000 -- not cheap, but less than the cost for expensive framework packages.
"Price may be a factor, but outsourcing could be a bigger issue," Elliott says. "Right now we are watching to see if customers will outsource this type of management or prefer to do it in-house."

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But their relationship with Capitol Records was not as memorable and the band left the label while working on their second CD. The band locked themselves away in a lake house in rural Tennessee for most of the following winter and released Traveler's Companion in April of 1999. The record was picked up by Americana radio stations across the country and charted for most of the summer, reaching #15.
Bonepony's touring strategy changed for their second release. This time instead of short opening sets for established bands, they would sweat it out in the clubs, playing a nearly four hour set most of the time. The band also concentrated on colleges, playing schools close to their hometown like Western Kentucky, University of Tennessee, and University of Virginia. Music festivals became a vital showcase for Bonepony and they were asked to perform at Farm Aid, the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, the Kentucky Bourbon Festival and many others. "We just like to play music," said Nick, "Wherever people get together, that's where we want to be."
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Now that we have a bit file generated from the Xilinx tools, it's time to program with Adept!
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The Best Things to Do in Seville in 3 Days
There is an old Andalusian saying, «He who has not seen Seville has not seen Wonder». We couldn't agree more: this Spanish city welcomed us with its orange scent, lively as the colors of azulejos. Here is our guide to the best things to do in Seville in 3 days, with all the main attractions and activities.
The Perfect 3 Days in Seville Itinerary
Seville is the most important city in southern Spain and the capital of the autonomous community of Andalusia. It can be reached by many direct flights from all over the world.
We visited Seville at the end of March, one of the most suitable periods to enjoy its springtime luxuriance. Unfortunately, our stay was very rainy, which is rare for this time of the year.
We stayed at the Silken Al-Andalus hotel in Seville, a bit out of the city center, but well served by bus and good value for money.
Many people choose to visit Seville during the Easter period for the Semana Santa, the most important religious event in the city. It goes without saying, the number of tourists increases dramatically in this period, and so do the prices.
Day 1 – Plaza de España and María Luisa's Park
We land in Seville around 3.30 pm. After leaving our luggage at the hotel, we immediately set off to discover the city.
María Luisa's Park
Our first stop is María Luisa's Park, where you can find the famous Plaza de España, one of the symbols of Seville. Part of these gardens was donated to the city in 1893 by the Duchess of Montpensier, María Luisa. In the following years, the gardens became the lush expanse that you see today.
Many buildings in the park are inspired by traditional Andalusian architecture. They were designed by Aníbal Gonzáles for the Iberoamerican Exhibition of 1929. Today the pavilions of that Expo have become museums, such as the beautiful Museo Archeológico and the Museo de Artes y Costumbres Populares.
The gardens are full of fountains, colorful tiled courtyards and fruit trees, their branches heavy with sweet tangerines.
Plaza de España of Seville
But the heart of the park is Plaza de España, also built for the 1929 Expo: this magnificent square has earned a place in the heart of all Sevillians. We walk through it in the pouring rain, a strange but romantic experience.
We walk under the porch that embraces the square, spying on its graceful bridges. The colors of the tiles and ceramics are so perfect that it's like being in a movie. It's no coincidence that Plaza de España has been used as a filming location for different movies, like Star Wars: Episode II, Attack of The Clones.
The first day in Seville ends splendidly in a tapas bar in the historic center of the city, La Corona.
Day 2 – Isla de La Cartuja, Metropol Parasol, Real Alcázar and Barrio de Santa Cruz
Our second day in Seville begins at the Isla de La Cartuja (Carthusian Monastery Island), where you can find the Monastery of La Cartuja and several structures built for the 1992 Expo, such as the Jardines del Guadalquivir.
The Monastery of La Cartuja
The monastery, named after Santa Maria de las Cuevas, was founded in 1400. Christopher Columbus spent some time here while planning his second trip to America and was buried in the monastery for some years after his death.
Later, the monastery was converted into a ceramics factory and an Expo pavilion. Today it houses the CAAC, Andalusian Centre of Contemporary Art. We did not particularly enjoy the exhibition areas, but the monastery itself is very impressive.
Monastero de la Cartuja and CAAC
Opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 11 am to 9 pm; closed on Mondays and bank holidays
Prices: €1,80 visit to the monument and temporary exhibitions; €3 full visit
Metropol Parasol of Seville
On the way back to the old town we cross the Guadalquivir, the river of Seville. A glimmer of sunshine peeps out of the clouds: it's the right time to climb the rooftops of the city! To do so we choose the Metropol Parasol, a futuristic structure designed by Jürgen Mayer.
The underground level is occupied by the Antiquarium, an archaeological site with Roman and Moorish remains, dating from the first century BC to the 12th century AD. It's quite fascinating, but nothing compared to the panoramic terraces: the view of the city center from the top is wonderful, especially with a glass a wine.
Belvedere Mirador Setas de Sevilla
Opening hours: Sunday to Thursday from 10 am to 11 pm; Friday and Saturday from 10 am to 11.30 pm.
Access to the terraces is only possible by lift with a €3 ticket (including a free drink at the rooftop bar and a postcard).
After the climb, we stop for some tapas at Los Coloniales, a highly recommended local spot with delicious food and low prices.
Alcázar of Seville
I'm sure the Garden of Eden looks a lot like the Alcázar of Seville. This heavenly royal palace is one of the finest examples of Mudéjar architecture in Spain and was used as a set for the show Game of Thrones.
October to March: Monday to Sunday, 9.30 am-5 pm
April to September: Monday to Sunday, 9.30 am-7 pm
Tickets: full price €9,50, students €2
Barrio de Santa Cruz
Leaving the Alcázar, we head left along the perimeter of the building to immerse ourselves in the Barrio de Santa Cruz, the former Jewish quarter of Seville. The Jews lived there until 1492 when the Spanish kings expelled the entire religious community from Spain.
Today, the Barrio de Santa Cruz is a labyrinth of narrow streets and colorful squares to explore with excitement.
Day 3 – Seville Cathedral and Triana
We spend our last day in Seville visiting its Cathedral and the vibrant Triana district.
Seville Cathedral and the Giralda
Seville Cathedral is the tenth-largest church in the world, as well as the largest Gothic church. Don't' miss the golden Retablo Major behind the high altar, a wall of gilded sculpture adorned with scenes from the life of Christ.
Inside the cathedral is the burial monument of Christopher Columbus, though a mystery hovers over the tomb of the famous explorer. In fact, he almost certainly reposes in Santo Domingo, where his remains were transferred years after his death.
Check out also the Patio de los Naranjos, a beautiful cloister with orange trees, and the Giralda, a former minaret converted a bell tower for the cathedral. Despite its height, getting to the top of the Giralda is very easy, since the tower has no stairs, but 34 smooth ramps that allowed the muezzin to climb it on horseback.
Tuesday to Saturday, 11am-5pm; Sunday, 2.30pm-6pm; Monday, 11am-3.30pm
You can visit the cathedral for free with an audio guide on Mondays, from 4.30 pm to 6 pm, advance booking is required
Prices: full price €9 ; students €4
To restore our strength we decide to tapear at Casa Morales, a traditional restaurant opened in 1850 where we eat among huge terracotta jars.
Torre del Oro of Seville
Heading towards the banks of the Guadalquivir from the Cathedral, you will find the enchanting Torre del Oro in front of you. This suggestive structure was built as a watchtower by the Almohad Caliphate for defensive purposes.
After the conquest of the city by the Castilian monarchs (1248) the tower was enlarged: it is said that King Peter I used it for his love meetings. You can admire a wonderful panorama of the city center and the river banks from the terrace.
Torre del Oro
Monday to Friday, 9.30 am to 6.45 pm; Saturday and Sunday, 10.30 am to 6.45 pm
Prices: full price €3 ; students €1,50
Triana is a neighborhood district on the west bank of the Guadalquivir River of Seville. Until 1852, when the Isabella II Bridge was built, the two cities were even separated! Therefore, the inhabitants of Triana like to consider themselves a small independent republic.
The pastel colors reflected in the river and the picturesque narrow streets of Triana are striking. We go for a walk in the Mercado, full of tempting food stalls. Then we reach the church of Santa Ana, considered the cathedral of Triana.
More things to see in Seville
If you've read this far, you'll understand that there are a lot of things to do in Seville in 3 days and that time won't be enough. So if you can stay for another couple of days, it's definitely better. You might as well:
visit the Museo de Bellas Artes, the second largest art gallery in Spain after the Prado in Madrid;
enjoy the nightlife in the Alameda de Hércules district;
see a flamenco show in Triana;
visit the Real Maestranza, a known site for bullfighting.
How to get around Seville
Getting around Seville is easy because the city is pretty small and you can reach plenty of attractions on foot. However, if you're staying a bit out of the city center, you can rely on public transport, such as bus, tram or metro.
The company Tussam operates the connection between the center of Seville and the airport, EA line. The stop is just outside the terminal and tickets can be purchased on board at the cost of €4.
Last tip: if you're carrying a heavy backpack, you can leave it at the luggage storage of the bus station in Plaza de Armas, €3 per locker.
The best places to eat in Seville
In Seville you don't eat lunch or dinner: you just eat… tapas. The custom of serving a glass of wine or cerveza with small appetizers is typically Spanish.
We got into the part and were basically eating tapas all the time. For each meal we spent approximately between 12 and 26€: quite cheap, isn't it? Let's remind you of our favorite places with the best tapas in Seville: La Corona, Los Coloniales and Casa Morales.
We hope we have given you all the information you need to plan your next trip to Seville. Thanks for reading: if you have any other questions or curiosities, please leave a comment.
Chiara Pagliochini
29 anni, made in Umbria. Dopo vari traslochi tra Italia e Irlanda, vivo ora in provincia di Varese e mi guadagno da vivere nella comunicazione. La scrittura è la mia vita, pubblicare un romanzo il mio sogno più grande.
We are a young couple of writers passioned about travelling and social media. Our motto? Every journey begins with a small step.
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Obama calls for support of state marriage equality ballot initiatives
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Thursday reaffirmed his support for marriage equality, and called on Americans to support the freedom to marry when they vote on ballot measures in Maine, Maryland and Washington.
The statement follows the president's announcement in May that he supports same-sex marriage, saying he evolved from supporting civil unions for gay and lesbian couples to support for full marriage rights.
In Washington state, the "same-sex marriage law would treat all Washington couples equally, and that is why the President supports a vote to approve Referendum 74," said Paul Bell, regional press secretary for the Obama-Biden campaign, in a statement.
In a similar statement regarding Maine's ballot initiative to legalize same-sex marriage, Michael Czin, Northeast regional press secretary for the campaign, said, "The president believes same-sex couples should be treated equally and supports Question 1."
In Maryland, Obama is heard endorsing same-sex marriage in a new radio ad being aired by supporters of Question 6, that state's ballot measure that would legalize gay unions. The ad, which is airing in both the Washington and Baltimore markets, features a clip from Obama's ABC News interview in May in which he talked about having "evolved" on the issue.
"The president's historic announcement of his support for marriage equality earlier this year sent a powerful message, particularly to LGBT youth, that no one's hope of achieving the American dream should be curtailed simply because of who they are. In Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, and Washington, we enter the final two weeks of this hard-fought campaign knowing that the president of the United States joins our entire community in supporting their efforts to ensure that all people are treated with dignity and respect," said Griffin.
"Today President Obama added a strong and personal 'I do' to voters still making up their minds on whether to support the freedom to marry in Maine, Maryland, and Washington this election, and Freedom to Marry applauds the president's moral leadership in standing up for families, fairness, and freedom," said Evan Wolfson, founder and president of Freedom to Marry.
"As the president said in May, 'Same-sex couples should be able to get married … when we think about our faith, it's also the golden rule.' The right thing to do on these ballot-measures is to vote to treat others just as you would want to be treated – and let loving and committed couples share in the freedom to marry," added Wolfson.
The president has previously spoken out against a Minnesota proposal to exclude gays and lesbians from marriage in the state constitution. Washington residents are already voting by mail, while voters in the other three states will vote at the polls on Nov. 6.
Tagged: Barack Obama, Decision 2012, Evan Wolfson, Freedom to Marry, Maine, Marriage Equality, Minnesota, Washington (State)
State by state report: Marriage equality today, and future battlegrounds
The Supreme Court issued a pair of decisions this week with major consequences for efforts to legalize or bar same-sex marriage. One ruling opened the…


Baseball Factory's High School Alumni Notebook takes a glimpse into notable performances from around the high school ranks throughout the season. Steve Bernhardt, Chief Baseball Officer for Baseball Factory, provides information on Factory alumni.
Jace is a 2020 left-handed hitting outfielder whose bat is really heating up. Over his last three games, he is 6-for-8 with 10 RBIs, six runs scored, a double and a triple as well as two home runs. One of the home runs was a grand slam – his third grand slam of the season! Bohrofen participated in Baseball Factory's Futures Texas Showcase in 2018.
The 2018 Under Armour All-American threw a complete game one-hitter in a victory over Alcovy in which he struck out 13 hitters. That matched his total from his last start – also a complete game victory, and in that one he also homered at the plate.
Ealy – an Under Armour All-American in both baseball and football – has been on fire lately. In his last three games, he is 7-for-11 with four doubles, five stolen bases and eight runs scored as he continues to increase his draft stock.
With a later start to the season in Illinois, Quinn hasn't logged a lot of innings yet this spring, but he was excellent in his last outing. He threw five no-hit innings with 11 strikeouts and went 2-for-3 with a homer at the plate. Priester was the hometown kid in the 2018 Under Armour All-America Game, as he was the starting pitcher for his National squad.
The Vanderbilt commit has helped to lead a talented Delbarton squad to four straight victories to start the season. In those four games, Anthony is 6-for-12 with seven runs scored, seven driven in, three stolen bases, a double and a home run. Volpe is another impressive talent that was part of the 2018 Under Armour All-America Game.
The two-time Under Armour All-American and #1 player in the 2019 class, Witt, Jr just continues to produce. He homered again in Colleyville Heritage's last game and his unofficial numbers for the season are now: 38-for-67 (.567) with seven doubles, four triples, 10 home runs, 39 runs scored and 31 runs batted in.


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Sometime Before Winter (Above And Below)
One of Allister's favorite places was in New York City. Central Park, if we are to be exact.
There was (and is still) a stone bridge there that reached over a creek. A bridge that one had to assume had been there for as long as the creek had. Or, at the very least, not long after. And one could easily mistake (well, one with poorer vision, could easily mistake) the bridge as being a natural wonder. The rocks were stacked so perfectly, so eloquently, that it seemed as though the bridge simply emerged from the ground on its own. Long ago, it had been a seed of gravel and it rose above the Earth and over the creek.
The carve marks of the blocks and the little ornate fixture on top gave it away that it was manmade. But, by whom, had been lost with time. Or, at least, lost under a pile of names and numbers and stacks of pages in a library among libraries. There also remained (and still remains) the possibility that a description of the bridge's origin and the name of its creator lay somewhere so obvious that Allister had not seen it. Perhaps, even right there in Central Park. But, Allister hoped not.
Allister liked for things so perfectly placed to be a mystery. It left more and also left less to so many. Some would see the bridge and be transfixed (as Allister was), would be lost in its presence and would look for answers. And some would see it and simply cross it or walk beneath it (for you could then, and can still now, also walk beneath it) and the bridge would merge so seamlessly into the park that there was no difference. And, either way, the bridge would pass along, over, and into history.
The stream beneath the bridge ran (and still runs), small and clear. And, when Allister came at the right time of day (and if you did the same now), the stream that ran on top of the bridge was large, parasoled, and fedora-ed. Made of people strolling (Perhaps, today the stream on top of the bridge would be more fluorescent and spandex-ed. Made of joggers and bikers).
And Allister breathed there.
He took in the two streams (the strolling and walking stream above the the trickling stream below), took in the bridge (that, though manmade, grew from the Earth), took in the park (that grew large and green in the middle of a giant city). By that bridge, over that trickling stream, even in the heart of a bustling and always-busy metropolis, there was (and still is) clarity.
We get lost so easily. We build such enormous structures and we want our names permanently engraved on such tiny things. We boil things down so small that we cannot see the meaning anymore. And we make our own meaning and want our name on that. We make heaven ours and we make it tiny and far away.
And Allister breathed out and thought that he did not want his heaven to be so far away.
In fact, he had one more favorite place in New York City.
It was a small place between the downtown and uptown subway tracks. There was a little pond or puddle of water there. And a dusted, hazy beam of light that fell from above. All around that little pond in that small place between the downtown and uptown tracks, fallen leaves had found there way past the sidewalk grates and scattered. And they scattered in the truest sense of the word-where there was no pattern and the mix was so intricate that you could not tell if the leaves had taken the shape of the ground or the ground had taken the shape of the leaves or whether they had gone and made their own form altogether. A new form. An amber form. A form that absorbed what warmth it got from the sun and spread it just a little further.
And a thought had occurred to Allister there, too.
He wanted to live there. And not in the homeless, vagabond sense. But, he wanted to live there. And he wanted to find and be near people who would hear him say, "I want to live here," and not ask why, not want to know more, not think that he was joking, not think that he wanted to start a charmingly playful conversation. But, people who would hear him say, "I want to live here," and who would take the time to look and see the little pond between the tracks and the scattered ground of leaves; and simply understand.
People who would simply say, "Me too."


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When I was asked by Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone to help him in his ministry at the parish of St Anthony Padua, I somehow had an idea on the pastoral and financial accomplishments made by the people of God guided by the Franciscan friars for over a century. Franciscan Father Guiglielmo Lauriola is still going strong as the only Franciscan friar. He was ordained as a priest when I was 1 year old. I thank Father William for his ministry and for strongly supporting Catholic schools.
I inherited a parish pastorally and financially very different than a century ago.
Pastorally speaking, to have ministered at this parish for more then six months has opened a corner in my "Mexican heart." I have truly appreciated the cultural and religious diversity of those people who make up this faith community.
I shall continue with the same spirit until I go back to Mexico this July 1.
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Are Christian Films Judged By a Double Standard?
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I am going to go ahead and surprise a few people–myself included–and say "yes."
That's not to say that I think most Christian films should be rated higher than they are. How many Christian films could even their supporters call truly excellent? But then again, the higher percentage of mediocre films than truly good films is hardly a trend exclusively limited to Christian movies, right?
Neither am I claiming that Christian films are always the victims of conscious, individual bias. We don't often think about or articulate our criteria when we rate a film. So sometimes it may be hard to see that the criteria changes depending on what we are looking at. When I scan film reviews, I generally see critics taking one of (or a mix of) four approaches: formal criticism, cultural criticism, reader-response criticism, or genre criticism. It is my contention that the way we navigate between and among those approaches is often to the detriment of Christian films.
By formalist criticism, I mean observation, description, and judgment that focuses on the technical aspects and artistic craftsmanship that goes into the making of a film regardless of its themes or content. There has been some buzz in film journalism, particularly of the Internet variety, calling for critics to engage in more formal criticism. It's worth pointing out here that the Online Film Critics Society (of which I am a member) currently has 275 members. The Internet has flattened film criticism considerably, and it is not uncommon for film journalists to have little or no education or experience in the art of film making or the history of film.
I know a few critics who are rightfully proud of their technical knowledge and more than a few who seek to establish (or bolster) their bona fides by including formal analysis in their reviews. I don't think that's a bad thing. But I know very few casual film viewers who walk away from their latest trip to the multiplex saying "that was a really clever use of negative space" or "I didn't understand some of the low key lighting choices in Gone Girl." And I know very few critics who consistently make technical innovation or excellence the sole factor in rating or esteeming films. It is more often a factor in dismissing or downgrading some films.
Christian films are rarely inventive on a formal level. The Kendricks and the Erwins are by their own testimony, self-taught, which means they are probably still in the stage of learning the basics of their craft rather than developing a particular style. Doing so while making commercial movies (as opposed to shorts or while in film school) puts pressure on film makers to be conventional. Experimenting takes time, money, and resources. But there's a difference between innovative and competent. Sean Astin told a group of journalists that the dailies he saw for Mom's Night Out looked much better than many films he had been in, some of which had exponentially bigger budgets. But I was hard pressed to find a single reviewer who praised that film for its cinematography, regardless of the overall judgment. I thought the color palette for Dolphin Tale 2 was terrific and that director Charles Martin Smith and cinematographer Daryn Okada did a fantastic job of keeping what was essentially a very tight location shoot visually interesting. Randall Wallace's decision to eschew, as much as possible, special effects in filming Heaven is for Real kept that film from having the more cheesy appearance of The Christmas Candle. I'm still amazed that D. J. Caruso was able to figure out how to shoot certain scenes in his anti-bullying movie Standing Up and keep it PG.
Conversely, if we don't like a film, and we aren't sure why, it is easy enough to retreat to vague formal pronouncements that make it sound as though we are being more objective than we really are. Tom Hooper's The King's Speech was not particularly innovative or formally complex and it won the Academy Award for Best Picture. His next film, Les Miserables, was more experimental, touting its attempts to record the actors singing on the set. Some critics complained this was a gimmick. My point? When we otherwise like a film, we tend to praise its technique, but it is often hard to really know how much of the technique is what is informing our judgment. In a famous story from film history, when The Godfather screened for test audiences, the film itself scored high, but the tests audiences said the film, especially the opening wedding scene, was too long. A trimmer, recut version was shown to different test audiences who liked the film and characters much less. How many of us are able to tell how much the editing choices affected our overall experience?
Cultural criticism will look at the ways in which a work of art performs cultural work–how it promotes or reinforces certain ideas. Critics engaging in cultural criticism will often spend as much time trying to explain or understand why a film is popular (or not) as they do making an independent judgment. My point here is that it is quite easy to engage in cultural criticism and come up with judgments that are at odds with one's formal estimation of the film.
I more or less despised Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street, a film that I thought reveled a bit too enthusiastically in the excesses of its protagonist. An excruciatingly long set piece in which Leonardo Di Caprio crawls back to his car because he can't control his body–and then gets into it and drives–is shot for laughs. I found the whole enterprise dreary and distasteful. Say that about the work of a respected director and you can expect a lot of push back. You just don't get it…Martin Scorsese is a brilliant film maker (true)…it's actually a critique…blah, blah, blah.
God's Not Dead was a much easier target for cultural criticism. I tried to emphasize in my review that when I said I didn't care for the film, I was really saying that I didn't care for the cultural work the film was doing. The view of the world it represented was not one that I found accurate. But you know what? I could say much the same thing about Gone Girl (and its views of marriage and mental illness), Boyhood, The Lego Movie, or The Equalizer. Reviews of–and discussion surrounding–movies that invite cultural criticism often become less about the movies themselves and more about the views of the world they represent. This is one area that–scoff all you like–I think Christian reviewers are often more fair than some of their secular counterparts. They will more often acknowledge or perhaps even praise elements of films that are engaging in overall cultural work they find distasteful than will some of their secular counterparts. Or so it seems to me, anyway.
Reader-response criticism is often parodied and more often misunderstood. In literature reader-response is an umbrella term that covers a lot of approaches, each of which focuses on how the reader builds meaning by interacting with text. Too often it is caricaturized as suggesting that the reader (or viewer) can interpret a text however she likes.
One strain of reader-response criticism that I appreciate is that which seeks to examine the reader's interpretive communities and how they inform his or her approach to any text. While a formalist might call on the critic (especially, the Christian critic?) to put aside his or her presuppositions when approaching a work of art, a reader-response critic is more apt to buy into the notion that doing so is impossible. In teaching, as in reviewing, I tend to privilege transparency over (dubious claims of) neutrality. It's probably important when deciding how much weight to give to my reviews of Mom's Night Out or When the Game Stands Tall, to know how I feel about comedies (meh) or sports films (yah!) in general.
Because I think Christian reviewers are more sensitive to (or feel more vulnerable about) charges of bias, I actually think they tend to be more up-front about their biases, which in turn makes their judgments paradoxically easier rather than harder to dismiss. I tend to think, for example, that critics go out of their way to formally criticize a film like, say, Gimme Shelter, so that they can avoid grappling with how much of their own antipathy has to do with its ideology rather than its execution. There are issues with the film, to be sure, but when was the last time you remember reading a review in which the critic said, essentially, "this was okay, but I didn't like it because it challenges my own ideology or beliefs"? Do we really think that critics of faith are the only ones who ever feel that way? ( I read more comments explaining why Juno wasn't really pro-life than I did admissions from critics that being pro-life was something that an individual critic might conceivably hold against a film.)
I tend to equate genre criticism in film with the late Roger Ebert. Here I am not talking about the literary tendency to break down and examine the conventions of the genre so much as an attempt to evaluate films relative to other films in the same genre. It seemed to me that Ebert figured out, as does any critic who rates films long enough, that it is hard to rate films with any sort of consistency. How can we rank A Clockwork Orange relative to Babe? Is it necessary–or helpful–to determine whether or not Spring Breakers is quantifiably better or worse than Andrei Rublev? Ebert popularized the practice of comparing films to others within their own genres, which implies (if it doesn't state outright), that five stars for a film noir or western means something different than five stars for a kiddie movie or romantic comedy.
Here I think the Christian movie has two problems. Critics and artists sometimes deny that Christian movies are a genre unto themselves–thus making it difficult, if not impossible, for a critic to say "I don't like Christian movies" and have it mean the same thing as my saying "I don't like horror movies." Heck, for that matter it doesn't provide the Christian critic the space for saying that he/she doesn't particularly like Christian movies without it coming across as an example of cultural or reader-response criticism. Recently one of my colleagues at Christianity Today admitted that his distaste for a film and desire to review it was informed by his wanting to make clear that the source material did not represent his "positions" or "the positions of most other Christians." This assessment may be true, but I'm not sure what qualifies a film critic–absent some reference to actual survey data–to make it. Full disclosure, I haven't seen Left Behind, and I do not think the books represent my own theological position. But I certainly would take pause at using that fact as the basis for saying something was categorically "not a Christian movie" particularly if I went on to claim that I did not know what that label meant.
While I certainly understand an artist wanting to eschew any label–Graham Greene once denied he was a "Catholic writer" instead claiming that he was a writer "who explored the Catholic regions of the mind"– denying that the category of "Christian" film exists (and means something) is ultimately an incomprehensible position to me. A cursory definition–either by Christians, for Christians, about Christians, or some combination of all three–doesn't have to mean that every author of faith is participating in or exemplifying the current conventions of the genre. Is it possible for a "Christian" movie to represent social or theological positions that I disagree with and still have me accept them as "Christian" movies? Of course. Mom's Night Out participates in and is informed by a complementarian interpretation of Biblical pronouncements about gender roles that I don't share. That doesn't mean that Erwins are not Christian or that I can't accept it as a Christian movie. I wrote in my review of Heaven is For Real that I was (and am) highly skeptical of Todd Burpo's book, but that does not mean I could not accept the film as a representative offering by (some) Christians for (some) Christians–and find themes or ideas to admire in it even where I rejected its premise. Son of God appeared to, in my reading, present Mary Magdalene as not just a disciple but as an apostle. Not buying it. But if there are any doubts that this was meant to be–and was–a Christian movie, just ask Mark Burnett and Roma Downey.
I'll be the first to concede that the lines between Christian production and mainstream production are pretty blurry, particularly in a studio system that challenges our continued commitment to auteur theory. There are and will remain reasonable distinctions to be made between Flannery O'Connor and Tim La Haye, between D. J. Caruso and Carl Theodor Dreyer. Heaven is for Real was directed by Randall Wallace whose body of work speaks for itself. Prior to that movie, the titles he wrote or directed, and the director himself, might have been looked at as faith-friendly, but Pearl Harbor, Secretariat, When We Were Soldiers, or even Braveheart were never thought of as "Christian" films, were they? But that Heaven is for Real was a movie by (some) Christians for (some) Christians was emphasized by the fact that Todd Burpo only agreed to sell the story to Sony if T.D. Jakes produced it and did so primarily because thought that the minister/producer would preserve and protect the religious aspects of the story even while trying to entice others who might not care about such themes to watch also.
While some critics are bending over backwards to eschew explicitly acknowledging or adopting the "Christian" label, the biggest indicator I see that it informs their (our) judgment is the odd unwillingness to examine these films in the context of any other genre.When the Game Stands Tall is not a perfect sports film, but, hey, Rotten Tomatoes critics, is it seriously forty points worse than Vision Quest and fifty worse than John Huston's shockingly overvalued Victory? Mom's Night Out was not a comedy masterpiece, but I laughed during it more frequently than I did at The Heat, Tammy, and both Grown Ups movies combined.
While I am on the subject of Adam Sandler's unfunny franchise, I'll point out that it is actually ranked lower at Rotten Tomatoes than the Erwin brothers' comedy, yet it had no trouble getting a sequel made. There are plenty of non-Christian movies that have an audience that cares little what the critics say. Yet when a publicist or reader points out the discrepancies between critical consensus and target audience enthusiasm in regards to Christian films much eye rolling ensues. I couldn't imagine anyone but the target audience thinking Grace Unplugged was all that good, but neither could I imagine anyone but the target audience caring for Jersey Boys, Rock of Ages, or The Doors. The difference? I didn't see defenders or fans of the latter films preemptively dismissed, their pleasure in flawed works cited as evidence that they should be disqualified from all further discussion.
The perfect Christian film was once described to me by a studio executive as one that faith audiences saw as explicitly directed towards them but that non-faith audiences would be comfortable viewing and not feel excluded from. Whether such a film even theoretically existed was–and is–an open question. The executive's use of the metaphor for a "sweet spot" on a baseball bat indicated that if it did, its balance between announcing and hiding its faith focus would be a delicate one.
Christian films have a long way to go before they have earned the right to complain about being slighted. I don't think it is a coincidence that the most popular films that could be included in that genre–The Blind Side, The Good Lie, Calvary–are often excluded from the conversation since some artists often don't want to be associated with that label and segments of the audience always want the faith content to be more central and more explicit than it is. But conceding that faith-based films are often not very good doesn't mean we can't notice or comment on a tendency to be overly critical of them. Is there never a distinction to be made between average and terrible? Between "I didn't care for it" and "worst movie ever"? Is it really that far out of line to ask whether, if (some? most? many?) critics hate every entry into a genre equally, they simply hate that genre?
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Maybe I missed it, but no discussion of Terrence Malick's work? I would say The Tree of Life and To The Wonder is what good Christian filmmaking looks like. Granted, his latest two films are more art than entertainment, but then shouldn't Christianity create good art instead of good entertainment? Maybe the reason so many Christian films fail, is that the filmmakers are too focused on standard film devices (i.e. plot, narrative, suspense, irony, humor, etc.) that were created to simply entertain.
Films should be exploring what makes Christianity special, such as the mysteries of the faith, and not be so simple minded with stories about the concrete things in life. This requires metaphor and symbolism, as Truth is too large to explain in black and white.
That all said, if you were to make a conventional movie that has a Christian message, I would say it should look something like Machine Gun Preacher (seriously). Show how messy and difficult trying to be a good person really is, and how easy it is to go off the rails when we let our pride get in the way. Too many Christian movies are just too precious and saccharine, and as such, we tune out because life isn't.
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Jason, I think Malick is an interesting case because while his films are dear to many Christians (including a subset that doesn't care much for the current stereotypically "Christian" movie) they draw our attention to the (some) in by (some) Christians, for (some) Christians, and/or about (some) Christians.
The "some" here is hard to pin down. For some…indicates a marketing term and allows one to not be the target audience for the genre and still be Christian. By "some" allows a space for someone to claim he is Christian but not necessarily making films as a particular expression of his faith or wish reception of the films to be informed/influenced by that fact.
Clearly Malick's films have a broader appeal and are pitched at a broader audience. Whether there is a distinctive about them that is meaningfully tied to his (or the audience's) faith is, I suspect, an open question.
Of course one could always argue the "about" as well. To the extent the films are perceived as autobiographical, they might be argued to be "about" Christians..just not the sorts of Christians who are typically represented in the majority of entries into the genre.
Ultimately, I suspect it has to do with how much a writer wants to expand the genre beyond its most common entrants or to what extent he/she wishes to define the genre more narrowly to exclude better works from it.Right now I see critics wanting to expand it so that they can argue, "See, we do like Christian films! Just not the bad ones…."
Thanks for writing this, Ken. I think this public conversation is long overdue, and if nothing else I'll praise Left Behind for prompting a more intelligent, cogent, and defining conversation about what "Christian film criticism" is and ought to be.
Thanks, Greg.I appreciate the affirmation.
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SPRINGFIELD — The Phoenix Center is hosting a film series with the University of Illinois-Springfield Performing Arts Center this spring.
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The first is Boy Erased starring Nicole Kidman & Russel Crowe as parents of a young gay man. Due to their religious beliefs they force him to go to conversion therapy. While the movie was released nationally on Nov. 2, 2018 it was never shown in Springfield. It was nominated for 2 Golden Globes. The movie is rated R. For more info go to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Erased
There will be 2 showings – 6:30 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. at the Studio Theatre at UIS (basement floor of the PAC building). A concession stand and cash bar will be available. Seating is limited and doors open 30 minutes prior to show time. Due to licensing agreements we are not able to sell tickets or set a price but we will be taking donations (to help pay for the cost of the event and so we can have future events of this type).
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The second in the series is "LOVE SIMON" Simon Spier keeps a huge secret from his family, his friends and all of his classmates: he's gay. When that secret is threatened, Simon must face everyone and come to terms with his identity. The movie is rated PG13
There will be 2 showings – 2:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. at the Studio Theatre at UIS (basement floor of the PAC building). A concession stand and cash bar will be available. Seating is limited and doors open 30 minutes prior to show. Admission is FREE.
For May:
The 4th in the series is "Bohemian Rhapsody". Bohemian Rhapsody is a foot-stomping celebration of Queen, their music and their extraordinary lead singer Freddie Mercury. Freddie defied stereotypes and shattered convention to become one of the most beloved entertainers on the planet.
The film traces the meteoric rise of the band through their iconic songs and revolutionary sound. They reach unparalleled success, but in an unexpected turn Freddie, surrounded by darker influences, shuns Queen in pursuit of his solo career. Having suffered greatly without the collaboration of Queen, Freddie manages to reunite with his bandmates just in time for Live Aid.
While bravely facing a recent AIDS diagnosis, Freddie leads the band in one of the greatest performances in the history of rock music. Queen cements a legacy that continues to inspire outsiders, dreamers and music lovers to this day. Rated PG PG-13
There will be shows, 6:30 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. There will be a cash bar and concession stand.
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Share the Journey is aimed at helping people encounter each other as brothers and sisters. Photo courtesy ShareJourney.org.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has launched a website to help parishes, clergy, and laypeople with Pope Francis's "Share the Journey" campaign.
The two-year campaign launched on Sept. 27 in Vatican City at the pope's weekly audience is aimed at "to promote encounters between people on the move and people living in the countries they are leaving, passing through or arriving in," according to Catholic New Service. Sponsored by Caritas Internationalis, the global network of national Catholic charities that include Catholic Relief Services and Catholic Charities USA, the initiative is meant to help all people see each other as brothers and sisters, and to help Catholics learn about who migrants and refugees are and the problems they face.
A world-wide "Week of Prayer and Action" from Oct. 7-13 will be followed by other initiatives, many aimed at helping Catholics meet and share time with refugees. Sharing a refugee or migrant's journey, Missionary of Jesus Sister Sister Norma Pimentel told CNS, builds solidarity by helping people see the presence of God in each other.
The website, ShareJourney.org, includes a section on prayer and activities; written and video stories of migrants and refugees; educational and pastoral resources in English and Spanish; links to social media Share the Journey accounts and hashtags; and links to donation and volunteer opportunities.
The Archdiocese of Cincinnati will host several related events this week and has joined with the dioceses of Ohio in urging Catholics to contribute to a 10,000-letter campaign asking state representatives to vote for the Dream Act or similar legislation.
The Share the Journey website features real stories of migrants and refugees. Photo courtesy ShareJourney.org.
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Penalty for harassment: pinch pension
The Dyson Heydon case raises the question of whether judges guilty of misconduct should forfeit their generous lifetime income stream paid for by the public.
Anthony Wood and Jordan Hardinge
Jul 16, 2020 – 2.37pm
An independent investigation commissioned by the High Court of Australia recently found that retired justice Dyson Heydon sexually harassed six female associates during his decade-long tenure on the bench. Chief Justice Susan Kiefel issued an apology to the six women, several of whom left the legal industry stating that sexual harassment was a significant factor in their decision.
The investigation's findings have led to many women coming forward with their own stories of sexual harassment in the legal industry, which some are referring to as the legal profession's #MeToo moment.
Under the Judges' Pension Act, retired judge remains entitled to a generous pension despite the findings against him. Dean Sewell
In a male-dominated profession where rigid hierarchies, power imbalances, and archaic traditions are entrenched, it is hardly surprising that parts of the legal profession are contending with misogyny and under-reported abuses of power.
But what are the consequences for those in power who engage in misconduct? Particularly, what disciplinary action can be taken against a High Court judge while in office, and what can be done now to hold Heydon – the recipient of an extremely generous lifetime pension – to account, given he has retired?
Other than retiring at the constitutionally mandated age of 70, a High Court judge can be removed from office only in accordance with section 72(ii) of the Australian constitution. This requires the governor-general to act "on an address from both Houses of the Parliament in the same session, praying for such removal on the ground of proved misbehaviour or incapacity".
Since Federation in 1901, when the High Court was created, this has never occurred, although Lionel Murphy was heading in that direction before his death in 1986. In fact, only one judge of a superior court in Australia has ever been removed from office by parliament. This occurred in 1989 when a judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland was removed by the Queensland Parliament for alleged misconduct.
Due to the rarity of joint sittings of Parliament, High Court judges are practically immune from being disciplined for their actions while in office.
Heydon, despite the allegations against him, remains eligible to receive a pension nearly seven times the median salary in Australia.
Nevertheless, given that community standards regarding sexual harassment have evolved over the past few decades (and even more dramatically since the #MeToo movement), it's quite possible that if the type of allegations made against Heydon were to be made against a sitting judge, removal from office would be a distinct possibility. Of course, the parliamentary process could be an absolute farce if it were to resemble a politicised, US-style impeachment process.
However, given that Heydon retired from the High Court in 2013, this is mostly a moot point in relation to holding him accountable for his actions. It does, however, raise the point of how a retired judge could be held accountable for misconduct while they served on the court. Recent calls by about about 500 women working in the law across Australia have sought the creation of an independent complaints body, with a standing jurisdiction to receive complaints against federal judges, extending to the investigation of retired judges.
Another issue which must be considered is the pension eligibility of retired judges. Retired High Court justices receive extremely generous pensions in Australia, the terms of which are governed by the Judges' Pensions Act 1968 (Cth). The amount a High Court judge receives as pension depends on their years of judicial service.
Heydon, who retired with more than 10 years' judicial service, is eligible to receive a pension for the remainder of his life that is 60 per cent of the amount payable to a current High Court judge. This means that Heydon, despite the allegations against him, remains eligible to receive a pension estimated at $331,128 a year – nearly seven times the median salary in Australia.
This is despite allegedly ruining the careers of some of the brightest legal minds in the country, and bringing the judiciary into disrepute.
Because Heydon has already retired, there is no mechanism whereby he could lose his pension entitlement. The solution? Amend the Judges' Pensions Act to remove a High Court judge's entitlement to a pension if they are found to have engaged in misconduct during their service as a judge. This could operate in a similar way to a clawback clause in an executive's employment contract in the private sector.
Heydon's actions are reprehensible. Surely, any judge found to have engaged in misconduct of this nature should not be entitled to such a generous pension paid for by the public.
It's hardly a knee-jerk reaction to ask that the Judges' Pensions Act (and its state based equivalents) be amended to remove a judge's entitlement to a pension if they are found to have engaged in serious misconduct that may otherwise have led to their dismissal, had they been in office.
A little more accountability might be needed to redress the harm and make future wrongdoers accountable for failing to meet the high standards demanded of the judiciary.
Anthony Wood is a partner at Herbert Smith Freehills.
Jordan Hardinge is a graduate at Herbert Smith Freehills.
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The Sins of Alberto Gonzales, and Advice for the Next Attorney General
By MICHAEL C. DORF
Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2007
On Monday, Attorney General Gonzales announced that he will leave office next month. President Bush greeted the news with sadness, describing Gonzales as a faithful public servant whose "good name was dragged through the mud for political reasons."
The claim that Gonzales came under sustained critical scrutiny because of ordinary politics is absurd on its face. For one thing, even many Republicans in Congress repeatedly expressed skepticism about Gonzales's performance. For another, if simple politics were at work in the way the President claimed, Democrats would have been willy-nilly calling for the resignation of all Bush Administration officials. Democrats had no reason to single out Gonzales for criticism--no reason, that is, other than his performance.
In this column, I will explain what was wrong with the way Gonzales did his job as Attorney General, and offer a suggestion for his successor.
Contempt for Congress
The numerous contradictions between testimony before Congress by Gonzales and by key aides have led some observers to call for a perjury prosecution against Gonzales. Most damaging are the discrepancies in the accounts of a visit by then-White House Counsel Gonzales to the hospital bed of then-Attorney General John Ashcroft, when Ashcroft had ceded his powers to a deputy.
At the very least, the professed lapses in memory by Gonzales and his loyalists are suspicious. In one Senate hearing earlier this year, former Gonzales Chief of Staff Kyle Sampson gave the answer "I don't remember" 122 times. Gonzales himself used the phrase "I don't recall" or "I have no recollection" over seventy times in another session.
Whether or not Gonzales ultimately faces perjury charges, his repeated obfuscations in testimony before Congress make clear that he has little regard for the legislative branch. And that stands to reason, for the chief law enforcement official of an administration that professes the most robust possible version of the "unitary Executive."
An Ideologue in Bungler's Clothing: Gonzales on Habeas Corpus
More broadly, just as President Bush sometimes benefits from people, in his own memorable phrase, "misunderestimating" him--that is, assuming he's merely a genial fool rather than a shrewd ideologue--so too Gonzales may have benefited from his image as an incompetent flunky. In fact, Gonzales has been a hard-core ideologue.
The commitment to the unitary executive is just one example. Gonzales also famously derided some of the protections of the Geneva Conventions as "quaint," and most disturbingly, in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in January of this year, he asserted that the Constitution does not protect a right of habeas corpus.
That last claim is arguably true in a technical sense, but only in a technical sense. The Constitution's Article I, Section 9 provides, in relevant part: "The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it." Gonzales argued that the prohibition on suspending habeas does not guarantee that there will be any habeas corpus protection in the first place, unless Congress, in its discretion, chooses to provide it.
Republican Senator Arlen Specter aptly observed that this argument violates common sense, but to be fair, Gonzales was not the only person to advance it. In the 2001 case of INS v. St. Cyr, Justice Antonin Scalia, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas and the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist, made the same claim. They invoked the literal language of the Suspension Clause and some of the history of its adoption and subsequent interpretation to conclude that, absent rebellion or invasion, the Clause forbids Congress from temporarily suspending habeas corpus, but not from permanently abolishing it.
Thus, there is a patina of respectability surrounding the restrictive view Gonzales took of habeas corpus, although on balance his argument is a poor one: Given that Congress can always re-enact laws it has repealed, there is really no such thing as permanent legislation. But never mind that. Wasn't Gonzales unfairly ridiculed for advancing a view that had recently been endorsed by three Supreme Court Justices and many others before?
No, he was not. When Justice Scalia argued that the Suspension Clause does not forbid a "permanent" abolition of habeas corpus, the question was open. The very case in which he made the argument, however, resolved the question against his position. Scalia was, after all, in dissent. The St. Cyr majority opinion made clear that the Justices thought that the Suspension Clause does affirmatively protect some core right.
Ordinarily, Supreme Court rulings limit Congress and the Executive branch. Thus, Gonzales, as Attorney General, should have been, but apparently felt that he was not, bound by the Supreme Court majority's view in St. Cyr. Either he was unaware of the decision--itself disturbing for the Attorney General of the United States--or more likely, he believed that mere words by the Supreme Court should not bind the political branches in wartime. There is even some authority for that extreme-sounding view, but Gonzales did not invoke it, perhaps because he knew how odd it would sound for the nation's chief law enforcement authority to espouse a position so difficult to reconcile with the rule of law.
Crossing the Line Between Policy and Partisanship
No episode during Gonzales's tenure as Attorney General (and part of his tenure as White House Counsel) so clearly captures how he misunderstood his job, as the scandal surrounding the firing of United States Attorneys. Here, as in other contexts, Gonzales appears to have labored under a serious misunderstanding about the line between law and politics.
Much of the public debate regarding the U.S. Attorney firings has involved Bush/Gonzales defenders attacking arguments that well-informed critics have not made. The apologists argue--correctly but irrelevantly--that U.S. Attorneys serve at the pleasure of the President, and thus can be fired at any time. They argue--again correctly but irrelevantly--that the President and Attorney General are entitled to set the policy agenda for U.S. Attorneys.
These arguments are irrelevant because the heart of the firing scandal involves the allegation that U.S. Attorneys were fired because they refused to use the nation's law enforcement resources to target Democrats disproportionately to Republicans. It is not entirely clear whether this allegation is true, but that uncertainty itself results in part from the White House's failure to cooperate fully with the Congressional investigation.
More importantly, if the allegation is true, that would represent a gross misuse of office. It is perfectly acceptable for Republicans and Democrats to have different law enforcement priorities. As I explained in an earlier column, however, it is completely unacceptable for a Democratic administration to distort those priorities by disproportionately targeting Republicans--or vice-versa--for partisan advantage. Beyond the partial evidence already made public, the allegation that Gonzales used the Justice Department in this illicit manner is credible precisely because, at every turn, he has made loyalty to President Bush and the Republican Party his top priority.
Restoring Honor and Dignity to the Justice Department
Fears that the Justice Department has become dysfunctional under the leadership of Attorney General Gonzales are probably overblown. Much of the work of the Department proceeds just fine without direction from Washington. Dedicated FBI Agents and Assistant United States Attorneys will hunt down and prosecute terrorists, bank robbers, and major drug dealers regardless of who holds the formal title of Attorney General.
Moreover, it is hard to imagine that the core goals of the Justice Department will or should change under a new Attorney General. One can question the emphasis that Gonzales and his predecessor John Ashcroft placed on seeking the death penalty and on child pornography prosecutions, but those were legitimate policy choices for politically accountable officials to make. The core goals, as reflected in the Justice Department's Strategic Plan, are unassailable: first, preventing terrorism, and second, fighting crime. No sensible person would adopt different priorities in these times.
Nonetheless, leadership matters. Already documents have surfaced showing that plum jobs in the Bush Justice Department have gone to Republican loyalists, rather than to the most highly qualified attorneys (many of whom will happen to be Republicans). That approach has undermined the noble tradition of professionalism in the Justice Department. The next Attorney General--whoever he or she is--should, on day one, reaffirm the Department's commitment to norms of professionalism.
Michael C. Dorf is the Isidor & Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia University. He is the author of No Litmus Test: Law and Politics in the Twenty-First Century and he blogs at www.michaeldorf.org.


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Q: open a modal form from my usercontrol I have  a usercontrol that opens a form. i want this form to open as modal having its parent the same parent of the usercontrol. is that possible? (all i need is that the form is open modal).
when i tried (form.parent = this.parent) i got an error saying the form is a toplevel form.
then i tried (form.toplevel=false; form.parent=this.parent) and here i got a cross-thread operation error.
thanks for helping.

Hans, here are parts of my code, thanks.
private void Container_DragDrop(object sender, DragEventArgs args)
{

         ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(
                delegate(object state)
                {

                    object[] parameters = (object[])state;
                    object s = parameters[0];
                    DragEventArgs e = parameters[1] as DragEventArgs;
                    this.OnContainerDragandDrop(s, e);

                },
                new object[] { sender, args });
}

private void OnContainerDragandDrop(object sender, DragEventArgs e)
    {
    //here I am calling a method
    MyMethod(e)
    }

private void MyMethod(DragEventArgs e)
{
mywcfClient.MyrequestWasSuccessfull += new MyRequestInfoEventHandler(mywcfClient_MyrequestWasSuccessfull);
}

void  mywcfClient_MyrequestWasSuccessfull (object sender, MyRequestInfoEventargs args)
{

//this is where I wanna show my form
From frm = new Form();
Frm.showdialog() //here the form is showing but non modal, i want to show it as modal}

A: It's a bit hum to have a user control open a form, consider raising an event so that the control's parent form stays in control and displays the dialog.
But okay if the dialog is a complete implementation detail of the control.  Don't set the Parent, you need to use the ShowDialog(owner) overload if you want to pick a specific owner.  It isn't typically necessary, the ShowDialog() method goes hunting for a suitable owner if you don't specify one.  You can find the parent form of the control back with code like this:
    private Form GetParentForm() {
        var parent = this.Parent;
        while (!(parent is Form)) parent = parent.Parent;
        return parent as Form;
    }

But you've got another problem, also the reason why you asked this question in the first place.  Your dialog right now doesn't have an owner and it is likely to disappear behind another window.  That's because your code runs on another thread.  A thread that created no windows, and thus can't supply an owner window, and the reason for the cross-thread exception message.
You need to use Control.Invoke to run the dialog code on the UI thread.  There's a good example of it in the MSDN Library topic for it.

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SOMETHING RED- In Washington, D.C., life inside the Goldstein home is as tumultuous as the swiftly changing times. In 1979, the Cold War is waning and the age of protest has come and gone, leaving a once radical family to face a new set of challenges. Something Red is a masterly novel that unfurls with suspense, humor, and insight. Dennis, whose government job often takes him to Moscow, struggles both to succeed in a career he doesn't quite believe in and to live up to his father's leftist legacy. Sharon, a caterer for the Washington elite, joins a cultlike group in search of the fulfillment she once felt. Happy-go-lucky Benjamin is heading off to college, there to experience an awakening of social conscience, and sixteen-year-old Vanessa finds a cure for alienation in D.C.'s hardcore music scene. As each of them follows separate trajectories of personal protest and compromise along the edge of a new decade, radical traditions long dormant in their family awaken once again, with shocking, far-reaching results.


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A former NYPD police officer was playing the role of a good guy and offering to help two women get their children involved in after-school fun. What he was actually doing was setting the women up for sexual abuse. According to New York Injury Lawyers, the officer was also convicted of unlawful imprisonment and official misconduct.
The former officer used the after-school idea to get the home address of the two women and then he showed up at their homes where he abused the women. His lawyer claimed that the women were unreliable resources. The NYPD officer told the court that he didn't remember one of the encounters at all and the other was mutual flirtation report New York Personal Injury Lawyers.
The former NYPD officer was convicted in January after he was accused of misconduct for telling a young girl that he would tear up her ticket if he would do him a sexual favor. He showed no emotions when the verdicts were read. He still faces charges of using his position as a police officer to gain sexual favors. He is also set to go to trial for raping a woman who entered the station house to inquire about children's programs. The former officer pleaded not guilty in that case as well reports New York Personal Injury Lawyers.
Currently charges are pending in another incident where a woman locked herself out of her car. She gave the former officer her number and he offered her information on the children's after-school program as well. The man contacted the woman a few days later and asked her to meet him. He had her get in his car and then found a secluded area and forced her to kiss him while he abused her.
In addition to each of these allegations, another woman indicated that the former officer too had approached her and he wanted to discuss an after-school program with her as well. According to New York Injury Lawyers indicate that the man remained firm that he didn't remember the woman at all. The New York Police Department fired him
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I read a couple of stories about this character but I can't find them anymore.
Suggestion, check the writers blog since they all seem to be written by the same person. Who knows how many other stories he has written that you might find worth reading. Some writers only post a few stories while others are quite proliferate.