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Public Enemies

Will Menaker | Posted 08.03.2009 | Entertainment

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Will Menaker

The problem with Public Enemies is that it wants so badly to be a grand statement on crime, celebrities, and the country that worships them, but it lacks any coherent idea of what it really wants to say.

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Hoover, Valenti, Gaydar, and DADT

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics

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Aubrey Sarvis

Most normal people today really don't care in which direction a person's sexual compass points, except as the subject of gossip and the gossip goes both ways, so to speak.


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J Edgar Hoover Planned Mass Jailings, Suspension Of Habeus Corpus

New York Times | Tim Weiner | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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A newly declassified document shows that J. Edgar Hoover, the longtime director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, had a plan to suspend habeas c...

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