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An open letter to the people of Afghanistan
By C. Bradley Thompson
On December 15, 1791, 212 years ago, the American Bill of Rights was ratified. Thus ended a long and difficult process by which the American people first liberated themselves from tyranny and then established the first government in history founded on individual rights protected by a written constitution. Now you, the Afghan people, liberated from the despotism of the Taliban, must assume the daunting task of framing a constitution, instituting a new government, and rebuilding civil society. The challenges that confront you are formidable.
Modern history teaches that constitutions are easy to write. Over the course of the last 200 years, almost every nation in the world, including communist dictatorships and Islamic theocracies, has drafted a constitution. The sad reality, however, is that few have brought freedom.
The particular difficulties that you face in establishing a new constitution are enormous. If you are to have any chance at creating a prosperous, just and free Afghan future, you must confront and overcome your own history. This means two things. First, you must face directly the uncomfortable fact that you have no useable tradition of self- government. Yours is a nation long governed by traditions of fascist-like political rulers, medieval forms of tribal and ethnic justice, and warring religions that are hostile to freedom. Second, you must reject the political anarchy of your ethnic chieftains and the religious tyranny of your Islamic mullahs. In a free Afghan society, neither tribe nor mosque must be able to gain governmental power.
More important, you must discover and accept the moral preconditions of a free society. Afghanistan's political, social, and economic reconstruction will require an ideological reconstruction. Bad ideas destroyed your society and only good ones can save it.
Once freed from the political grip of the twin evils of ethnic collectivism and religious oppression, it is imperative that you import and accept the ideas of the Western Enlightenment. Philosophers such as John Locke and America's founding statesmen discovered the moral foundations and the political institutions necessary to establish a free and just society. You must begin, as we did in our revolution, by recognizing the moral sovereignty of the individual. A free society recognizes that each and every man is capable of rational self-government in the fullest sense. You must enshrine as inalienable the rights of all men and women to their lives, liberty, and property.
Through our revolutionary experience, we learned that the protection of man's individual rights is the only legitimate function of government. This means that you must design a government limited to making and enforcing objective laws of social conduct. This is no easy task.
According to James Madison, the father of our constitution, the great problem in framing a government that is to be administered by men over men is this: "You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself." The genius of America's founding fathers was to have discovered a solution to this perennial problem--i.e., the idea of a written constitution as fundamental law. Men such as John Adams and James Madison learned through experience that a written constitution must stand above government as a higher law that creates, defines, and limits the powers of government. Politically, your supreme law must be the constitution and not the Koran or sharia law. Otherwise, your constitution will be little more than a "parchment barrier" against the encroachments of power-lusting mullahs.
In order to elevate the rule of law over the rule of men, America's founding statesmen designed a constitutional system that curbed power in two important ways. First, they limited the role of government to making and enforcing laws that define crimes and punishments objectively, resolve civil disputes between individuals, and enforce the sanctity of contracts. These functions serve to protect the rights of the individual from the arbitrary power of other men. Second, they built into our constitution several crucial principles, procedures, and institutions that are necessary barriers to the concentration and abuse of political power: e.g., separation of powers, checks and balances, and federalism. These mechanisms serve to protect the rights of the individual from the arbitrary use of government power.
In addition to these general principles of constitutional construction, Afghanistan's founding fathers should add a double security to the freedom of the Afghan people by explicitly identifying and protecting individual rights in two crucial areas: freedom of thought and freedom of production and trade. The Afghan state must be barred from interfering in the intellectual and moral lives of its citizens, and it must not attempt to regulate wealth creation or redistribute the fruits of a man's labor. In other words, there must be a strict separation of mosque and state, as well as a strict separation between the economy and the state.
In stark contrast to your Arab and Persian neighbors, you have a unique opportunity to liberate yourself from the darkness of your past. The United States of America has freed you from the tyranny of a brutal and wicked regime, but its greatest and most enduring gift is contained in two old and musty documents written more than two hundred years ago- -the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. It is here that you will find the true meaning of freedom.
C. Bradley Thompson is the author of John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty,
and a senior writer for the Ayn Rand Institute in
Irvine, Calif. The Institute promotes the philosophy of Ayn Rand, author
of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead.
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Rehabilitation efforts of Au Sable River's South Branch continue – The Department of Natural Resources today announced fish and insect communities will soon benefit from another habitat project in the South Branch of the Au Sable River. Contractors will place large woody complexes – clusters of a small number of trees – in select areas from the mouth of Thayer Creek in Crawford County to the main stem of the Au Sable River. This will create a better environment for fish and other organisms.
The Au Sable River is one of the country's most notable cold-water rivers. High groundwater inputs provide excellent water temperature for cold-water fish in most streams in the watershed, including the South Branch of the Au Sable River. Historically, the river has been noted for clear, cold, stable flow. Clusters of woody debris and high gradient create an ideal habitat for a productive and diverse fishery.
European settlement of the region stripped areas along the Au Sable of its natural woody debris in the last half of the 1800s, creating problems that continue to exist today. These problems include a scarcity of wood in portions of the stream channel and near-shore areas, and excessive amounts of sand.
Efforts to restore fisheries in the South Branch of the Au Sable River have been ongoing for more than 10 years. Recently, the DNR Fisheries Division contracted with Restoration Dredging, Inc. to assist in these activities. The final two-year segment of a 10-year commitment with this contractor to restore the river system will occur between June 2013 and July 2015.
Restoration Dredging, Inc. will be responsible for planning and implementing the placement of large woody debris complexes into the South Branch of the Au Sable River, on private and public shorelines. Landowner permission will be obtained for work along private shorelines.
All trees will be transported and placed into the river solely by helicopter. Trees will be harvested on either state or federal land. The placement sites will be discussed in a public review process before they are approved by Fisheries Division.
Landowners along the South Branch of the Au Sable River in Crawford County will have an opportunity for their property to be considered for stream enhancement locations and contribute to ongoing rehabilitation efforts. Permission will be required from landowners to place one or more large woody debris structures on the river bottom of their property after Sept. 1, 2013.
This rehabilitation project is an example of the DNR's commitment to protecting natural resources and ensuring sustainable recreation use and enjoyment. The enhancements in the South Branch of the Au Sable River enables a strong natural resource-based economy in Crawford County and builds upon strong economic relationships and partnerships between the DNR, the USDA Forest Service and area businesses. Local subcontractors on this project include Northpoint Fisheries Management in Grayling and S&J Excavating in Roscommon. Construction Helicopters, Inc. of Howell is providing the aviation portion of this project.
Questions on this rehabilitation initiative can be directed to Tim Cwalinski, fisheries biologist for the Northern Lake Huron Management Unit at 989-732-3541, extension 5072.


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Aggravated Kidnapping
P.C. 20.04 - Aggravated Kidnapping
(a) A person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly abducts another person with the intent to:
(1) hold him for ransom or reward;
(2) use him as a shield or hostage;
(3) facilitate the commission of a felony or the flight after the attempt or commission of a felony;
(4) inflict bodily injury on him or violate or abuse him sexually;
(5) terrorize him or a third person; or
(6) interfere with the performance of any governmental or political function.
(b) A person commits an offense if the person intentionally or knowingly abducts another person and uses or exhibits a deadly weapon during the commission of the offense.
(c) Except as provided by Subsection (d), an offense under this section is a felony of the first degree.
(d) At the punishment stage of a trial, the defendant may raise the issue as to whether he voluntarily released the victim in a safe place. If the defendant proves the issue in the affirmative by a preponderance of the evidence, the offense is a felony of the second degree.


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(CNSNews.com) – The Obama administration says a meeting in Washington next week seeks to make progress in combating religious intolerance, but critics say the U.S. is pandering to an ideological agenda aimed at restricting speech critical of Islam.
According to the State Department the aim is to find ways to combat religious hate without compromising freedom of expression. Detractors are skeptical that this can be done, and they suspect that free speech will end up the loser.
Among those criticizing the event are GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, the Traditional Values Coalition, and scholars at the Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom.
The State Department-hosted meeting is the latest step in a process stemming from a resolution on "combating intolerance based on religion," adopted by consensus at the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) last March.
The move marked the first time in more than a decade that the U.N.'s top human rights body did not pass an annual "defamation of religion" resolution, sponsored by the bloc of Islamic states, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
Many rights advocacy groups regard the OIC campaign as an attempt to outlaw valid discussion of Islamic teachings – to extend to democratic societies the type of blasphemy provisions enforced in some Islamic states.
The new resolution, known as "resolution 16/18," called on countries to combat "intolerance, negative stereotyping and stigmatization" based on religion, without seeking to criminalize speech – except in cases of "incitement to imminent violence."
The administration characterized it as a significant breakthrough: "[T]he Council took an important step away from the deeply problematic concept of defamation of religion by adopting a constructive new resolution that promotes tolerance for all religious beliefs, promotes education and dialogue and is consistent with U.S. laws and universal values."
Some human rights and religious freedom advocacy groups opposed to the "religious defamation" drive also praised the development.
Others were skeptical, noting that the OIC had watched its defamation resolutions receive less and less support each year and may view resolution 16/18 as an alternative route towards achieving the same end.
OIC leaders themselves did not help to allay these suspicions, stressing that the Islamic bloc had not abandoned its agenda of "protecting" Islam and insisting that the "religious defamation" campaign was not dead.
On the sidelines of a first meeting held to advance resolution 16/18, in Istanbul last July, Pakistan's U.N. ambassador Zamir Akram said that the OIC would not compromise on three things – anything said or done against the Qur'an, anything said or done against Mohammed, and discrimination against the Muslim community. (Akram represents a government overseeing some of the Islamic world's most controversial blasphemy laws, where "blaspheming" the Qur'an or Mohammed carries the death penalty.)
At that Istanbul meeting, co-chairs Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and OIC Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu issued a statement urging countries "to take effective measures, as set forth in Resolution 16/18, consistent with their obligations under international human rights law, to address and combat intolerance, discrimination, and violence based on religion or belief."
Next week's gathering in Washington is a follow-up to the one in Istanbul, and it aims at "implementation."
From the OIC's viewpoint, resolution 16/18 is clearly part of the defamation campaign: "Washington plans to host a meeting on resolution opposing defamation of religions," the OIC's official news agency reported last August.
Ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom Suzan Johnson Cook says the meeting will bring together international organizations, including the OIC, European Union, Arab League and African Union, as well as law enforcement and justice officials representing some 30 foreign governments.
The meeting will "discuss best practices for two of the recommended actions from resolution 16/18: engagement with members of minority religious communities and enforcement of laws that prohibit acts of discrimination on the basis of religion or belief," she said.
The State Department would afterwards submit a report on "best practices identified during these sessions" to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and for public distribution.
'Americans never signed on to submit their sovereignty to the U.N.'
The administration argues that the way to find a middle road between combating religious hate speech and upholding free speech is to use the tools of education, public debate and interfaith dialogue rather than legal prescriptions.
Naming and shaming is also part of the arsenal, with Clinton at the Istanbul meeting speaking of using "some old-fashioned techniques of peer pressure and shaming."
Also in Istanbul, U.S. permanent representative to the HRC, Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, gave an OIC publication an example of the type of action regarded as effective, citing the administration's condemnation of Florida pastor Terry Jones' Qur'an-burning demonstration.
"When you have the president, the secretary of state and public figures jointly condemning that, it will be more effective than throwing that pastor in jail," the OIC Journal quoted Donahoe as saying. "I believe the same is true for the hateful [Mohammed] cartoons. We should all be joining together in conveying our disgust with such intolerance."
Critics question the wisdom of partnering with an organization with a troubling agenda. They also wonder why the administration is cooperating with an OIC effort to give legal teeth to what is a non-binding resolution.
"President Obama should put a stop to this nonsense and declare that in free societies all views and religions are subject to contradiction and critique – and the OIC must learn to tolerate that," Hudson Institute Center for Religious Freedom director Nina Shea and senior fellow Paul Marshall in a Wall Street Journal op-ed this week.
Former House speaker and Republican presidential hopeful Gingrich also voiced concern.
"Just days after chastising Israel for 'unfair' treatment of women, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will welcome a Saudi-based Islamist group, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to Washington for a conference on 'tolerance,'" he wrote in a Human Events column on Wednesday. "Far from a tolerant organization, however, a primary mission of the OIC is to restrict free speech critical of Islam."
The Traditional Values Coalition has requested permission to be admitted as an observer to next week's meeting, and says the State Department has so far refused.
In a letter to Clinton Thursday repeating the request, TVC President Andrea Lafferty wrote that not allowing the organization to observe would only "lead to the conclusion that the objective of this meeting is not religious liberty and toleration, but rather a concert designed to chill, contain, and curb religious liberties and free speech."
"Why is it that the U.S. Constitution must come second when representatives from Islamic counties such as Saudi Arabia and Pakistan demand we must curb our religious liberties and free speech?" Lafferty asked in a statement.
"Americans never signed on to submit their sovereignty to the United Nations, nor should they be expected to submit to the will of Islamic countries whose human rights record against women, Christians, and other persecuted minorities continues to shock the world."


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This is the first of three videos from the Dekline of Eastern Civilization tour. Check out the video and be sure to pick up issue 56 of The Skateboard Mag.
Head on over to The Berrics to check out Olly's grueling Wednesday stuck with the one and only, Reda.
Our international rider Soy Panday just finished up filming a video with his board sponsor Landscape. The video will be entered in Document's Big Push 08. Check it out here!
Olly's footage from Secret and Lies may not be recent but it sure does give you a good look at his bag o tricks. Check out his 2004 part at the Stereo site.
Dekline Flow Rider Shaun Gregoire is killing it in this week's Mag Minute. Check it out!
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Cheshire to release barrel-aged Negroni
Cheshire, the speakeasy-like watering hole one floor above Solera Wine Bar and Lounge on South Avenue in Rochester, plans to release a barrel-aged Negroni on Thursday. The gin-based cocktail has been aging for more than six weeks in a seasoned, or previously used, oak barrel.
"The blend is our usual Negroni – Edinburgh Gin, Vya Sweet Vermouth and Campari," says Cheshire owner John Fanning. "We're using the oak barrel previously seasoned with our barrel-aged Manhattan, which we hope will add another level of complexity and flavor."
For $15, customers may try a four-sample flight of the cocktail that illustrates its development, from five to 50 days in the barrel. A full pour will be $9.
Typically garnished with an orange peel, the Negroni dates back to the early 20th century in Florence, Italy.
Cheshire is at 647 South Ave. in Rochester. For more information, call (585) 232-3070 or go to solerawinebar.com


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This is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:30 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
1st Gear: RIP Australian Auto Industry
As we told you very early this morning, GM has decided to phase out all manufacturing in Australia by the end of 2017. It's another big blow to Australia's car industry, since Ford announced there would be no more Australian manufacturing of their cars as of 2016.
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That means the two home-grown nameplates, the Ford Falcon and Holden Commodore, will no longer be home-grown at all. The Falcon will likely move to a global front drive platform while production of all Holdens will move elsewhere.
And Holden's decision to leave could have a ripple effect on the last player in Australian manufacturing.
The last car maker building cars in Australia is Toyota, but it certainly doesn't sound like they are around for the long haul. Now that Holden has announced they are shuttering their plants, Toyota has come out and said that union issues could cause them to also cease manufacturing in Australia:
Toyota warned yesterday that a no vote on a union workplace agreement would send "a very strong message to our parent company that we are not serious about transforming our business".
"This will put our ability to continue building cars in Australia at serious risk," a spokeswoman said.
And this was before Holden officially announced that they were on the way out. Don't be surprised if Toyota leaves Australia, which will then send their manufacturing business into crisis.
2nd Gear: Is The Next Ford F-150 Getting Delayed?
A report from our friends at The Truth About Cars says that the new Ford F-150 is facing a three month delay because of aluminum issues. Supplier sources tell TTAC that the next F-150 will be using a generous amount of aluminum in its construction, and that's the issue.
The delay with the material, that just isn't quite up to snuff, could be as many as 10 weeks. That's a setback, but not the end of the world.
3rd Gear: One Of These Will Be Your North American Car And Truck Of The Year
It's that time again. I know, you're al excited. It's time for the North American Car and Truck Of the Year, or NACTOY for short. What's good is that they actually got the finalists right this year.
On the car side, we have the Mazda3, Chevrolet Corvette, and Cadillac CTS. These are three of the best cars that I drove this year, so I can't argue against any of them getting the nod. Though I am concerned that the McLaren MP4-12C Spider didn't make the cut.
The truck side has one actual truck, the Chevy Silverado, and the Jeep Cherokee and Acura MDX, which are technically crossovers. I can't see the Cherokee winning, just because of all the delays that have occurred with it's automatic transmission. That's a botched launch if there ever was one.
4th Gear: Will BMW Build Engines In The USA Or Mexico?
BMW already builds cars in Spartanburg, South Carolina, but it sounds like they might start building engines over here too to account for more demand.
They've been notoriously secretive in the past, with engine manufacturing staying in Germany until last year. That's when they started making some in China to supply their local sales there.
Seems like a natural fit. BMW should decide on the plant in the next year.
5th Gear: So Long, VW Bus
Yep, it's time. We reported it in August, but this month is the last month of production for the famous VW Microbus.
The Kombi is still built in Brazil, but after 56 years, it's saying its final goodbye. Sure, we haven't had it in years, but this is still quite sad.
So long, friend.
On December 11, 1962, the New York City Board of Estimate unanimously votes against a plan for a $100 million elevated expressway across the bottom of Manhattan. The road, known as the Lower Manhattan Expressway, had been in the works since 1941. It was supposed to link the Holland Tunnel on the city's West Side with the Williamsburg and Manhattan Bridges on the east side, slicing right through the neighborhoods now known as TriBeCa and SoHo.
What do you think about the future of the Australian auto industry? Will they bounce back? What does this mean for us and cars like the Chevy SS?


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What is 16000 cm in Feet? How far or long is 16000 Centimeters converted to Feet?
Learn the simple 16000 Centimeters to Feet conversion below or use the simple to use calculator to convert other values of Centimeters to Feet.
What is 16000 Centimeters to Feet ? (16000 cm in Feet)
16000 Centimeters is Equal to 524.9343832 Feet
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Feet are one of the most basic units of measurement. They are used to measure everything from the height of an object to the distance between two points.
Feet are typically represented as either abbreviations ("ft"). A foot is equivalent to 12 inches or 1/3 of a yard. Feet are an essential unit for describing size and distance in many different scenarios. Whether you are taking measurements for work or simply making estimates about your surroundings, knowing about the basic properties of feet can make life easier and more efficient!


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DNR News** Archived Article - please check for current information. **
March 31, 2016Successful fall dove hunt depends on planning, preparing fields now
Now is the time to begin the planning and preparation of fields to attract doves during the upcoming season. The mourning dove is one of the most popular game species in the Southeast, and fall dove shoots are a South Carolina tradition.
Large numbers of doves will feed on waste grains and weed seeds in harvested peanut, corn and wheat fields. Fields can also be planted in millet, sorghum, sesame, corn, sunflowers or other crops and managed specifically for dove hunting. It is legal to plant a field with grains attractive to doves, and harvest or mow all or part of it, or none of it at all, and shoot doves over the area. Well-managed dove fields provide benefits to doves and other wildlife before and after the hunting season. Landowners interested in dove field recommendations should contact the S.C. Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Small Game Project at (803) 734-3609 in Columbia, or a DNR regional wildlife biologist. Dove field planting information can also be found on the DNR website at https://www.dnr.sc.gov/pubs/AttractingDovesLegally.pdf.
Mourning dove season dates for 2016-17 will be Sept. 3–Oct. 15, Nov. 12-26 and Dec. 15–Jan. 15, 2017. Afternoon hunting only is allowed from Sept. 3-5. The remainder of the season, shooting hours will be one-half hour before sunrise until sunset. This year the bag limit will decrease from 15 to 12. The daily bag limit is also 12 this year.
Several factors should be considered when planning a dove field. Larger fields are often more attractive than smaller fields. Generally, a dove field should be a minimum of three acres in size and should be designed to allow at least one acre per hunter. Fields should not be located near busy highways, residential areas, schools, hospitals, or other areas where safety or noise could be a concern. Also, doves are easier to attract if fields are located within an agricultural landscape, rather than within a large block of woodlands.
A single field can be manipulated to attract good numbers of doves through the season by alternating strips of several different crops. For example, browntop millet, which will mature in 60-70 days, will provide food during the early dove season. Dove proso millet will mature in 80-90 days and will be available after the browntop falls. Corn or sunflowers could be planted on remaining strips to provide late-season food sources. Doves prefer small-seeded, black-oil-seed varieties of sunflowers over the larger striped-shell sunflowers.
Dove fields should be planted on dates that allow the seed to mature about two weeks prior to hunting, which allows doves time to locate the food source and become accustomed to feeding in the field. Planted strips within fields should be at least 30-50 feet wide, and kept as weed-free as possible. Doves have weak feet and will not use a field where they have to scratch and search for food. For this reason, it is best to plant crops in rows to facilitate cultivation. Herbicides labeled for the various plantings are also recommended. Row plantings also make finding downed birds easier. In fields with heavy weed growth, light discing of strips throughout the field will improve the attractiveness of the field to doves by exposing seeds of native weeds and planted crops.
Overshooting will drive doves away from even a high-quality dove field. A field should not be hunted more than once a week, and the birds should be allowed to feed unmolested during the last two hours of daylight. A particular field should be hunted morning or afternoon, not both.
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James L. Brooks on Journalism, the Oscars, and 'Broadcast News'
The writer, director, and producer reflects on the film that brought him to the Academy Awards more than two decades ago
The writer, director, and producer reflects on the film that brought him to the Academy Awards more than two decades ago
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This is Academy Awards weekend in Hollywood, and James L. Brooks is a man who knows about Oscars. He's been nominated eight times, and at the 1984 Oscar ceremony, he took home three statuettes for writing, directing, and producing Terms of Endearment. Three years later, Broadcast News, another film that Brooks wrote, directed, and produced, was released. It's the story of a love triangle set in a network newsroom in Washington. Through the characters of news producer Jane Craig, anchor Tom Grunick, and correspondent Aaron Altman—played, respectively, by Holly Hunter, William Hurt, and Albert Brooks—moviegoers got a glimpse of how the news business operates. They also witnessed, as Brooks told us, a movie about "three people who lost their last shot at intimacy."
Broadcast News was nominated for Writing and Best Picture, but it lost to Moonstruck and The Last Emperor. Still, the film remains a standout from the era. It's now certifiably reached the classic category because the Criterion Collection has just issued a new high-definition digital transfer of the picture on DVD and Blu-Ray. The discs also contain footage that Brooks shot that never made it into the theatrical release.
Journalism is a subject close to Brooks' heart. Now 70 years old, he's spent a good deal of his life dramatizing the people who work in it. Two giant 1970s TV series that he co-created—The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Lou Grant—were also set in newsrooms. We visited with Brooks at Twentieth Century Fox here in L.A. Images from the TV series The Simpsons, which Brooks has been producing since 1989, cover giant soundstages across the lot from his personal office. But this is Oscar week, so we talked about the movie that took him to the Awards ceremony 23 years ago.
Broadcast News has an authenticity about the news business that most other films about journalism haven't been able to capture. Why is making an authentic picture about journalism so difficult?
Making an authentic film about anything is difficult. Take Steven Spielberg and Saving Private Ryan. There had been great war movies before it, but not ones that told it like it was. Think of the pictures that Steven was making up until then. Then he steps forward and makes this authentic war movie. That's one of the great feats of talent I've ever witnessed in my life.
Certainly All the President's Men and Broadcast News are first-rate on journalism.
Alan J. Pakula, who directed All the President's Men, also directed the first movie script I got produced, Starting Over. I went after him because of All the President's Men.
You worked at CBS News in the early 1960s. How did that experience figure in the making of Broadcast News?
Well, I was at CBS News on a fluke. I replaced somebody who was on vacation. I worked as a copy boy, then became a news writer. This was at the end of the glory days there. You're looking at somebody who actually saw Edward R. Murrow. He'd go get a drink at this bar, and I'd get a table and have coffee just so I could keep looking at him.
Did the CBS News people show up as your characters in Broadcast News?
Actually, a man called John Merriman, who was one of Murrow's editors, was the basis for the character of Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. The main thing that happened to me is that I was exposed to people who were sophisticated—the smartest people I'd ever met in my life. It was a sea change for me. And I became a news nut.
So how did Broadcast News come about?
I'd just made Terms of Endearment and didn't know what I was going to do next. I always think of those days as the best time of my life. Norman Pearlstein, who was an editor at the Wall Street Journal, got me into the 1984 national political conventions. I met a girl who was a brilliant reporter and a White House correspondent—and she was dating two guys.
Who was the correspondent?
I don't want to name her because that was her private life.
Was your goal to make a picture about the news business?
We'd come out of years of feminist pictures, and I wanted to catch a new kind of woman. I was on the lookout. That was my conscious goal. And then I met Susan Zirinsky.
She was the legendary CBS News producer who gave you the behind-the-scenes perspective—and was one of the models for Holly Hunter's character, Jane Craig.
That's right. And after six months of casting the picture, two days before we started rehearsals, Holly Hunter walked into the room. Her acting killed me. It's a different rhythm and style.
Broadcast News gets into ethical questions. In one scene, a reporter asks, "Would you tell a source you loved them just to get information?" When you were researching this picture, how many people actually confessed they'd done that?
You've selected a line that never got a laugh, but that I loved. I was always waiting for it. Very often at screenings, I'd be the only one laughing when that line came out. But nobody actually said they'd done that.
You shot this picture in the 1980s. What do you see when you look at it today?
I'm knocked out by the performances. I'm stunned by how long we would hold shots on Holly, how deep inside the characters we went. I don't think any actor has done what William Hurt did in this movie. Holly, Bill, and Albert Brooks all gave great performances. I'm knocked out by them.
This new DVD has quite a few deleted scenes on it. What did you cut out?
There's a subplot where the Tom Grunick character, played by Bill Hurt, meets a man called Buddy Felton. Buddy's roommate works at the State Department, and Buddy has heard a story that he decides to pass on to the news. Buddy is gay, and he has sort of an instant crush on Tom. He says to Tom, "I hear stuff all the time. Isn't it good for you to hear things before they happen?" It's a relationship that leads to Tom breaking stories. Tom had been brought up with good manners, and he's gracious to Buddy. Plus, you realize this character cares deeply about Tom Grunick.
Why didn't you keep this story in the picture?
Because it makes it a darker film. The turning point is when Buddy finally tells Tom, "I broke up with my roommate. He's really the magnet for everybody who knew anything." So basically Buddy no longer has the connection to give Tom inside information. Humorously, Buddy offers to get back together with his roommate to help Tom out, but Tom says he's doing okay and doesn't need that. There's an awkward embrace and just before Tom goes on the air, Buddy says to Tom, "I want to tell you what my mother said to me: 'Don't be afraid to be wonderful.'" But you sense a dark side to Tom: he no longer needs this source.
There's also an alternate ending featured on this DVD. Considering the ending that we've always known for Broadcast News, seeing this new footage of another ending is really quite extraordinary.
I look at the picture now with that alternate ending, and it also makes this a different movie. I hadn't seen it since I decided not to use it. I was trying to film this ending using a technique that worked in A Man and a Woman, directed by Claude Lelouch, where one of the actors is unaware of what the other one is going to do, but somebody blew the shot so we didn't get what I wanted.
Well, we won't spoil it for our readers.
Besides, if we had used that ending, the movie would have been altered dramatically.
Albert Brooks' speech about the devil—"He will look attractive and he will be nice and helpful and he will get a job where he influences a great God-fearing nation... and he'll get all the great women"—makes it into the national conversation from time to time. The McLaughlin Group program, following on a Maureen Dowd New York Times column, used it as a way of describing President Clinton during the scandal over his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Mary McNamara of the L.A. Times invoked it to help explain Don Draper, the ad exec of the "Mad Men" series.
Really? I was unaware of either of those things.
What were you imagining when you wrote the speech?
The duality of God and the devil is something that occurs to me in one way or another at various times. I don't know if I initially had the devil in mind, but I knew it was Aaron's last pitch for the girl. The surprise in it as I was writing was the line, "Look at that. I buried the lede." I can't tell you how important that line became to me.
It's a long scene. You don't see that kind of thing much in movies anymore.
It's as long as two people go, two people talking to each other. From the moment Holly comes over to Albert's house, until the moment she leaves, I knew I needed something to allow staging. One of the most intense, humbling hunts for a location I've ever had was searching for that house. In the script, I'd written that the Aaron character would step outside and look at the Jane character, who's inside. But it wasn't until we found that place on Capitol Hill that things started to fall together. And Albert Brooks just killed the speech.
It's a scene where, as you once observed, he stops loving her by force of will. It happens at the exact moment when he sees that she can't catch her breath because she's so worked up over another man.
And Albert absolutely plays that. He goes from being wildly in pain about losing this woman to being, "O.K., Jane. Thanks for dropping by."
Years ago, you were quoted as saying that you didn't realize Broadcast News was in the tradition of classic romantic comedies until you saw it just before it was released. You said you heard some of the lines as if Cary Grant could have spoken them.
I don't remember saying that. But my reaction is, "Hey, that's really interesting." [laughs] And true. I'll never forget what you just said—or what you said that I said.
Was there something when you were filming that wasn't evident until later on in the process?
The word "process" means you're not supposed to see the whole thing until the end, doesn't it? Almost everything that's in this picture are things that I didn't see at the beginning. I'll never have this much process on a movie. I don't want to admit that because I want to have it again. Badly.
What made Broadcast News so different?
We filmed it almost entirely in sequence. We even broke up the newsroom scenes just so we could shoot the picture in sequence. And that means we kept informing ourselves. That means we woke up and these things happened with people in the sequence they're supposed to happen. So that's "process," as you say. But keep in mind—we wouldn't be sitting here talking about this movie if Holly hadn't walked in. I also waited six months for William Hurt to become available. He almost didn't do the picture. And I don't think we'd be talking about Broadcast News if I hadn't waited those six months for him.
Where do you see Holly Hunter's character, Jane Craig, today? Is she working at the Fox News Channel?
She certainly contributes to the Dateline kind of show. I think she could be one of two producers on a network morning show. In order to survive, Jane has become brilliant at the things she was fighting against. A lot of people have done that.
One of the first scenes in the picture is when Jane cries to release tension. Did someone specifically inspire that?
This is one of my rules on research: the third time you hear something, you can start to think that it's generally true. Three or four times, different women told me that in the course of a day, they cried. It wasn't that they were crying in a programmed way, it was just a release. Jane doing that is one of my favorite things in the movie.
Well, the first time Jane breaks down in tears, viewers wonder what's going on.
It's confusion. The third time she does it, we got the laugh.
Early on in the picture, you have Albert Brooks and Holly Hunter's characters go on assignment to Nicaragua to embed with the Contras, who were fighting the communist Sandinistas. Central America was a political lightening rod back then, yet you played these scenes without flinching.
The politics of that scene were totally irrelevant to me. More than once, I heard about the sexual turn-on that journalists get when they're in the field, endangered. What that moment is all about is that if Albert's character can only see it, Holly's all his. There's gunfire, he gets off this really good line, "I can't believe I just risked my life for a network that tests my face with focus groups," and he has this woman. But he's just too scared to scoop her up.
If only Aaron Altman had made his move.
That's what the scene is about to me.
Holly Hunter's character is a portrait of confidence when it comes to her work. The network news president tells her, "It must be nice to always believe you know better, to always think you're the smartest person in the room," to which Jane replies, "No. It's awful." That's one of the great moments in this film. Was Holly's reply scripted?
Oh, God, yes. We did 24 takes because getting it just right was so important to me.
The man who plays the new president was the late Peter Hackes. For 30 years, he'd been a correspondent for NBC.
That's right—and he'd been fired in the search for pretty men.
The scene where the people in the newsroom are losing their jobs still packs a wallop.
Well, when we filmed it, I was going nuts over who cried—and even what they packed up to take home. I was trying to make it truthful. A woman called Joan Richman, a trailblazing producer at CBS News, came in and watched us shoot those scenes. She was sharp and tough and had a huge heart. Seeing us shoot that made Joan cry because she'd been through those layoffs in real life.
Another memorable scene that feels so real is the one where Holly Hunter and William Hurt first meet. They're in a hotel room, and Holly removes her panty hose while she's talking. Was that stage direction in the script?
No. That was Holly's inspiration. I was going crazy over how to shoot the scene because in the script, it was ten pages. The day of the shot, Bill and Holly said to me, "Last night, we tried something. Let us show it to you." And they showed me the staging that ended up being the scene. They showed me hugging a pillow, the two of them on either side of the bed. They showed me stuff I never would have thought of, and I don't think any director would have thought of. What they did was a genius thing, an art thing.
Holly admonishes Bill's character, "What do you want from me, permission to be a fake? Stop whining."
You feel sorry for Tom! [laughs] That portends a future, right? [laughs]
Producer Polly Platt has said, "There are no bad guys in Jim's movies." Are there any bad guys in Broadcast News?
Even Jack Nicholson's character, the anchor Bill Rorich?
I don't think he has a mean bone in his body. The audience knows he had affairs. They know he cares, but he's hard-nosed enough not to let himself be done in by caring. He's done his war stories. The stage direction for Jack's handshake with Bill Hurt says, "The world's best handshake." I think we know everything about Jack's character from that handshake, which is wonderful.
You have the Washington bureau chief character says, "There's a recklessness in the air," referring to their business. That was 1987. What's in the air today?
In the late 1980s, people were being criticized for laying off reporters. When's the last time you heard someone criticized for that? In a lot of news organizations, what's going on now is a form of torture. They increase the workload until somebody collapses. It's all about how many columns they can get out of a human being. But it's nuts to be cynical. How can we not say that what happened in Egypt produced some great journalism?
Broadcast News opened against such pictures as Wall Street, Empire of the Sun, Throw Momma From the Train, and the Barbra Streisand picture, Nuts. That was Christmas 1987 at the cineplex.
They all beat me, didn't they? [laughs]
The New York Times' Aljean Harmetz said the movie had no major stars—
Bill Hurt was a star.
—a bland title, no car crashes, and a heroine who won't sleep with her leading man because she doesn't like his ethics.
She tried! But he turned her away, man.
Given all those things, how did you think Broadcast News would do at the box office?
I did all my test screenings and marketing, but I was coming off Terms of Endearment. So I took some breathing room. I was enmeshed in making the picture and just trying to get it right.
Broadcast News was made a time when the news business was changing. Romance was, too. You once asked, "Who else are you going to fall in love with when you work 18 hours a day?"
We were hearing about two-career couples. There were couples living in different geographic places. Pragmatism came into relationships. Before today's technology really hit, there was fundamental change in almost every era. I was obsessed with all that.
Your most recent picture, How Do You Know, is about love. Where is romance today?
Falling in love is different. But I've got a hunch that if you asked every adult in America, "What's the smartest thing you've ever done?," a lot of them would answer, "Marrying him." "Marrying her."
What's the smartest thing you've ever done?
Giving up a union job, a union writing job. It was a better job than I ever conceived of being able to get. I quit and somehow came to L.A. for another job that I lost in six months. But quitting that job was the smartest thing I ever did. It brought me here.
In the years since Broadcast News, we've lived through major news events: the end of the Cold War, the 2000 presidential election recount, and the September 11 attacks. Do you think September 11 coverage was TV journalism at its best?
The remarkable thing about 9/11 was that journalism pretty much put down its badges. People didn't worry about reacting as human beings. People who weren't reporters reported. David Letterman was sort of a brilliant reporter for a second—but it was a way nobody had ever covered a story. They just presented what was inside themselves.
You've worked with some of the top actresses in the business—Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Holly Hunter, Reese Witherspoon, and others. Who's your favorite leading lady?
Well, I'm stunned by what Holly did in this movie. But my answer is Whittni Wright, the six-year-old girl in I'll Do Anything. I think she gave the greatest child performance ever. She's a miracle. I think she was God. She's my pick.
You were recently quoted as saying, "I never believed this would happen. Motion pictures have been made successfully into a business." But hasn't Hollywood always been an industry?
Yes. We've always tested pictures, and marketed them. But the folly was, when someone had an idea or script, people were silly enough to run numbers on what kind of business the picture might do. Pictures were always a successful freak show. You just couldn't tell which freak would bring in an audience. Now, we can run numbers. There's actually a way to do that job. That's what the so-called tentpole movies started. Studios can be pretty damn accurate about business all the way around the world if they make a certain movie in a certain sort of way. Of course, there will always be surprises. But Irving Thalberg isn't someone you'd want to hire right now.


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Dileep Padgaonkar, The Times of India's former editor who made the revealing claim that he held the "second-most important job in the country" after the prime minister, is back in the paper, handling the opinion page.
Padgaonkar writes in The Sunday Times of India of the small role he played (as the paper's Paris correspondent in 1971) in giving France's first coloured model—the Bombay girl Phyllis Mendes who dazzled Pierre Cardin enough to become his muse and business manager—her stage name.
"The day after dinner [with the Padgaonkars] Phyllis reported for work at Cardin's plush offices on the elegant rue du Faubourg St Honore. That afternoon she called me to say that her bosses were unhappy with her first name since it did not sound Indian enough.
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"I suggested 'Geetanjali' — Rabindranath Tagore's work was known in France thanks to a fine translation by Andre Gide —but Phyllis thought it was too long. Besides, the French might not be able to pronounce it correctly.
"So I shortened 'Geetanjali' to 'Anjali' and told her that the worst they could do was to call her 'en jolie' and 'jolie', in French, meant 'lovely'. From then on the world knew her as Anjali Mendes though for me, as for those who had known her in Bombay, she would always be Phyllis.
Anjali Mendes, passed away alone and abadoned in her home in the south of France last week at the age of 64.
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Jaime becomes sixth Buccaneer to reach 80 career wins
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (March 3, 2012) – Senior Paula Jaime (Madrid, Spain) came back from 5-1 down in the second set to win 6-3, 7-5, and freshman Jessica Brumit (Elizabethton, Tenn.) won her third-consecutive match as the ETSU women's tennis team defeated Liberty 5-2 on Saturday afternoon in the Buccaneers' on-campus home opener at the Buddy Hartsell Tennis Center.
"I think we played pretty well today," Director of ETSU Tennis Yaser Zaatini said. "We didn't do anything spectacular, but I think everybody was working hard and competed well as team. If we can get our team back to full strength then I think this team will compete well in the conference."
With the win, ETSU (2-4) ended a four-match losing skid and extended its home winning streak to 20-consecutive matches. Liberty (1-7) has now dropped its last four matches after losing 7-0 to Marshall on Friday before coming up short on Saturday to the Bucs.
ETSU got the day started with a doubles sweep. Jaime and fellow senior Marine Wieliczko (Rouen, France) paired together for the first time all year and took care of Alexandra Sheeran and Rebekah Jenkins at No. 1 doubles, 8-0. Brumit and sophomore Giulia Andreazza (Balneario Camboriu, Brazil) clinched the doubles point with an 8-5 victory over Nicole Wellman and Carol Lobel, before freshman Kelsey Williams (Sunbury, Australia) and junior Diana Navrostska (Lviv, Ukraine) finished off the sweep with an 8-6 comeback against Cameron Richard and Brittany Yang. Williams and Navrostska trailed 6-4 in the set and used two holds and two breaks to string together the last four games.
Navrostska carried her momentum into singles play with a 6-0, 6-3 defeat of Wellman in the No. 5 match. The win evened the junior's dual record to 3-3 as she has now won three of her last four matches.
With ETSU ahead 2-1 in the match, Jaime trailed Sheeran 5-1 in the second set after having won the first set pretty handily, 6-3. Just as it appeared Sheeran was going to force Jaime into a third set, the Madrid native reeled off six-consecutive games to close out Sheeran in two sets and put ETSU in front 3-1. The win lifted Jaime's record this year to 15-6 overall, 3-3 dual, and was her 80th career singles win, making her just the sixth Buccaneer to reach the 80-win plateau.
Brumit then clinched the match for ETSU, sticking with her winning ways by taking down Lobel in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3, to earn the freshman her third-consecutive win. Brumit also moved her dual record to 3-3, and is 10-6 overall after going 7-3 during the fall.
After Wieliczko lost a heartbreaker in a match tiebreak 1-6, 7-5, 1-0 (14-12), the Bucs wrapped up the match on a winning note with Andreazza defeating Jenkins in two close sets 7-5, 7-5.
ETSU will look for its 21st-consecutive home win on Tuesday, when it welcomes Western Carolina to the Buddy Hartsell Tennis Center at 3 p.m.
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HICKORY v. U S(1896)
Mr. Justice WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.
Sam Downing, alias Sam Hickory, and Thomas Shade were indicted, in October, 1891, for the murder in the Indian Territory of a white man by the name of Joseph Wilson. Downing, who was at the time of the alleged killing 19 years old, was tried and convicted, and the case was brought by error here. The verdict and judgment were reversed, and the case was remanded for a new trial. Hickory v. U. S., 151 U.S. 303 , 14 Sup. Ct. 334. On the trial, the defendant was again found guilty of murder, and the case for the second time comes here by error. The assignments of error are 12 in number, and all relate to errors alleged to have been committed by the trial court in the charge given to the jury. The charge covers 20 pages of the printed record. To correctly understand the merits of the various assignments of error, it is necessary to briefly refer to the testimony, which is stated in a condensed form in the bill of exceptions.
The testimony for the prosecution tended to show that Wilson, the deceased, was a deputy marshal, and had a warrant for the arrest of the accused upon the charge of taking whisky into the Indian country. With this warrant he started to a house, where he expected to find Hickory, being [160 U.S. 408, 410] accompanied by John Carey. Wilson and Carey proceeded together until just before reaching this house. Carey then informed Wilson that he would go no further with him, as he did not wish to be known in the neighborhood in connection with the arrest. It was then arranged between them that Carey should remain in the woods while Wilson should continue on to the house, and make the arrest. Wilson had with him 'a large white-handle pistol,' and told Carey that if he found the accused he would fire off his pistol after arresting him, in which case Carey would meet him, 'close to Brown's, on the prairie.' Wilson then proceeded on his way, and Carey remained in in about half an hour Carey heard the firing In about half an hour carey heard the firing of 'a gun,' then 'two guns' went off together, then there were several shots, 'which sounded as if they were fired by one fire.' Carey waited for Wilson until sundown, fire.' Carey waited for Wilson until sundown, and as he did not then come he (Carey) went to the house of Squirrel Carey, and 'told him about hearing the shooting, and that Wilson was to fire his pistol, but he did not say how many times.' The government also introduced proof showing that some days afterwards the body of Wilson was found in a gulch or ravine, and there was a gun-shot wound straight through the body; that the skull was fractured, and that there was a contused wound or bruise at the base of the brain. The person of the deceased had not been rifled, and on it were found his watch and papers; among the latter the warrant for the arrest of Hickory.
Further testimony was introduced tending to show that an examination of the house where Wilson had gone to arrest the accused disclosed spots of blood on the porch, in the house, on the door, and in the yard at several places, and on a wagon standing in the yard, and that efforts had been made to conceal these spots of blood. There was also testimony showing bullet marks in the house; that 'certainly one, and probably two, shots were fired from a southeasterly direction, where the marshal likely was at the commencement of the shooting, towards the front door, one striking a corner [160 U.S. 408, 411] post and the other the wall near the door. Two shots had been fired from the inside of the house through the front door, as shown by the holes. One shot had been fired from the large front room, glancing the middle-door shutter, which was open, and going into the wall of the rear room; and another had gone into the wall of said rear room opposite the center of the middle door.'
Testimony was further offered tending to show that Wilson's horse was found dead some distance from the house, and the witnesses could not tell whether 'its throat had been cut or eaten by wild animals, as they had been working on it.' It was also shown that when Wilson went to the house he had a pistol, a bridle, and a saddle, on which a coat was strapped, and these things were not found. The government then further introduced testimony tending to show that the accused had told three or more witnesses 'that he shot the deceased, and hit him the first shot, but did not kill him, and that Tom Shade, who was there with defendant, knocked the deceased in the head with an axe; that after the killing an attempt had been made to destroy the blood spots in the house and yard.' It further introduced testimony tending to show that after the killing the accused was "scouting,'-that is, avoiding arrest.' Upon this proof the case for the prosecution was rested. The accused, after introducing testimony tending to rebut the alleged confession by showing that he was not in the place named at the time it was stated the confession had been made, then testified in his own behalf, admitting the killing of Wilson, and giving substantially the following account of the occurrence: He was in the yard, hitching up a team of horses for the purpose of hauling a load of posts, when Wilson came into the yard, and asked him his name, which he gave him, and thereupon Wilson put him under arrest, and read the warant to him; that he replied, 'All right,' and unharnessed the horses, and turned them loose; that Wilson asked him whether he was going to ride one of the horses, and he replied, 'No; that they did not belong to him;' that thereupon Wilson asked him who was the owner of the horses, and he said the owner was not there, [160 U.S. 408, 412] but lived in the neighborhood. Wilson told him to take one of the horses, and they would ride to the owner's house, and, if he would not consent to Hickory riding away on it, it could be returned. He again said, 'All right,' and put the bridle on the horse, Wilson telling him to hurry up, and get his saddle; that he started to go into the house after his saddle, and when he was about three steps from the porch he heard the fire of a gun, and, turning around, saw Wilson with a revolver in his hand, and smoke coming from it; that he did not run after the first shot, but walked on towards the house, when a second shot was fired just as he was about to enter the front door; that he went into the house, and shut the front door, intending to go out through a side-room door and run off. When he had gotten about as far as the middle door of the side room he discovered Wilson coming in through the outside door of the side room with his pistol raised at him (indicating the pointing of a pistol); that he then ran to the east side of the front room, got his gun, and went to the front door. The marshal then appeared at the middle door of the side room, exposing himself just enough to shoot, which he did, and that he (the accused) returned the fire, which was followed by further firing between them. The marshal then disappeared from the door, and went into the yard, and fell down close by the wagon. He (the accused) ran off, and remained a half an hour, and on coming back found the marshal dead. He became frightened, and did not know what to do, and, indeed, did not know all that he did do. He put the body of the marshal on the wagon, and hauled it about a mile and a half from the house, and then threw it out at the head of the gulch. When he returned after doing this he found the marshal's horse wounded in the knee. He took off the saddle and bridle and hid them, and also the coat which was tied to the saddle, and the marshal's pistol and belt. The accused also introduced a witness to the killing, a woman by the name of Ollie Williams, his mistress. She testified to the marshal's coming up to the place where the accused was standing in the yard with the wagon and horses; to the accused starting towards the house. She said that the marshal, who was right [160 U.S. 408, 413] by a tree, then shot at him; that she did not see how the marshal held his pistol the first time he shot; that the accused was going into the door when the two shots were fired; that the marshal came around to the outside room door with a pistol in his hand, and told her to get out of the way; that she went a quarter of a mile off, and had nothing to do with the moving of the body of the deceased. The accused, moreover, introduced the testimony of a physician who had examined the body of the deceased, and who contradicted the statement that there was a fracture in the skull of the deceased, and said there were two scalp wounds, one on the top of the head and the other in the back. 'They had the appearance of some blunt substance striking the head, or the head striking the substance.'
The opinion formed by us as to three of the assignments of error will render an examination of the others unnecessary. The three which we will consider are as follows:
It is contended by the defendant in error that of these assignments the fourth and seventh are not sufficiently specific to merit consideration, because they do not point out the exact [160 U.S. 408, 414] words in the charge of the court complained of. The assignments are in exactly the same language as were the exceptions taken during the trial, and which the record declares 'the defendant presented at the time.' While it is true that the assignments do not, in terms, state the precise language used by the court, they yet indicate the subject-matter in the charge to which the exceptions relate with sufficient clearness to enable us from a mere inspection of the charge to ascertain the particular matter referred to. In considering, when this case was previously before us, a similar objection to the adequacy of an exception, we said: 'The rule in relation to exceptions to instructions is that the matter excepted to shall be so brought to the attention of the court, before the retirement of the jury, as to enable the judge to correct error, if there be any, in his instructions to them, and this is also requisite in order that the appellate tribunal may pass upon the precise question raised, without being compelled to read the record to ascertain it.' It is here unquestionable, on the very face of the bill of exceptions, that the objections were reserved before the retirement of the jury, and that the trial court was fully aware of their import, and had the opportunity to make such corrections, if any, as its judgment may have deemed necessary to prevent the charge from being misunderstood by the jury. This is made clear, not only by the language of the bill of exceptions, but also by the charge itself, which contains a statement by the court, entirely inconsistent with a possibility of there having been any surprise or misconception. The court said:
The first comments of the court upon the facts in reference to concealment (covered by the fourth assignment), and its instruction as to the weight to be given the proof on the subject of the flight of the accused (covered by the eleventh assignment), are so connected in the charge as to cause the examina- [160 U.S. 408, 415] tion of the one to necessarily involve the other. We shall therefore examine at the same time the errors complained of in these two assignments.
First. Errors Complained of in the Fourth and Eleventh Assignments.
The language of the charge to which these assignments relate immediately follows the reference made by the court to the number of exceptions reserved, and is in these words:
It is undoubted that acts of concealment by an accused are competent to go to the jury as tending to establish guilt, yet they are not to be considered as alone conclusive, or as creat- [160 U.S. 408, 417] ing a legal presumption of guilt. They are mere circumstances to be considered and weighed in connection with other proof with that caution and circumspection which their inconclusiveness when standing alone requires. The rule on the subject has had nowhere a clearer and more concise expression than that given by Chief Justice Shaw in the Webster Case, to which the trial court adverted. Com. v. Webster, 5 Cush. 295. The learned chief justice said: 'To the same head may be referred all attempts on the part of the accused to suppress evidence, to suggest false and deceptive explanations, and to cast suspicion without just cause on other persons; all or any of which tend somewhat to prove consciousness of guilt, and, when proved, exert an influence against the accused. The consideration is not to be pressed too urgently, because an innocent man, when placed by circumstances in a condition of suspicion and danger, may resort to deception in the hope of avoiding the force of such proofs. Such was the case often mentioned in the books, and cited here yesterday, of a man convicted of the murder of his niece, who had suddenly disappeared, under circumstances which created a strong suspicion that she was murdered. He attempted to impose on the court by presenting another girl as the niece. The deception was discovered, and naturally operated against him, though the actual appearance of the niece alive afterwards proved conclusively that he was not guilty of the murder.'
In Ryan v. People, 79 N. Y. 593, considering an objection that the trial court erred in admitting evidence of an attempt to escape from the sheriff, the court said:
The cases which illustrate the rule in various phases are too numerous to review. They are collected in the text-books, and will be found in a note at the foot of chapter 14, 750, Whart. Cr. Ev. (9th Ed.). The modern English law on the subject is referred to in Wills on Circumstantial Evidence (page 79), citing the opinion of Mr. Baron Gourney in Reg. v. Belaney, which is thus recapitulated:
And the same author, at page 80, quotes the observation of Mr. Justice Abbott on a trial for murder where evidence was given proving flight: 'A person, however conscious of innocence, might not have courage to stand a trial, but might, although innocent, think it necessary to consult his safety by flight. It may be,' added the learned judge, 'a conscious anticipation of punishment for guilt, as the guilty will always anticipate the [160 U.S. 408, 419] consequences; but at the same time it may possibly be, according to the frame of mind, merely an inclination to consult his safety by flight rather than stand his trial on a charge so heinous and scandalous as this.'
So, again, at page 88, the same writer says: 'So, also, is the concealment of death by the destruction or attempted destruction of human remains [a presumption of guilt], but in this case the presumption of criminality results from the act of concealment, rather than from the nature of the means employed, however revolting, which must be regarded only as incidental to the fact of concealment, and not as aggravating the character and tendency of the act itself. Where a prisoner tried for murder admitted that he had cut off the head and legs from the trunk of a female, and concealed the remains in several places, but alleged that her death had taken place by accident while she was in his company, and that in the alarm of the moment, and to prevent suspicion, he had determined to conceal the death, Lord Chief Justice Tindal told the jury that the concealment of death under such circumstances had always been considered to be a point of the greatest suspicion, but that this evidence must be received with a certain degree of modification, and especially in a case where the feelings might be excited by the singular means of concealment adopted by the prisoner; that this point of evidence was, therefore, for the consideration of the jury, and it was for them to show how far it was proof of the prisoner's guilt; but the mere general fact of concealment, added the learned judge, is to be considered, and not the circumstances under which it took place.'
The text writers generally state the principle in accordance with the foregoing.
In a footnote at page 645 this author collects several marked and peculiar instances where a person had fled who was undoubtedly innocent. One of these instances is this: 'Dr. [160 U.S. 408, 421] Thomas Fuller gives the following quaint excuse for running away from London when charged with treason: And if any tax me, as Laban taxed Jacob, 'Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly without taking solemn leave?' I say with Jacob to Laban, 'Because I was afraid.' And that plain-dealing patriarch, who could not be accused for purloining a shoe latchet of other men's goods, confessed himself guilty of that awful felony that he 'stole away' for his own safety; seeing truth may sometimes seek corners, not as fearing her cause, but as suspecting her judge.'
Thompson on Trials (title 6, c. 69, 2543) makes this statement: 'It is often inaccurately said that the flight of the accused creates a presumption of his guilt, and this presumption is sometimes inadvertently dealt with as though it was a presumption of law. But it belongs to that class of presumptions which are generally classified as presumptions of fact. If it were a presumption of law, the jury would be bound to draw it in every case of flight, and the court might so instruct them; whereas it is merely a circumstance tending to increase the probability of the defendant being the guilty person, which on sound principle is to be weighed by the jury like any other evidentiary circumstance.'
Measuring the correctness of the charge now considered by these principles and authorities, it is at once demonstrated to have been plainly erroneous. It magnified and distorted the proving power of the facts on the subject of the concealment; it made the weight of the evidence depend not so much on the concealment itself as on the manner in which it was done. Considering the entire context of the charge, it practically instructed that the facts were, under both divine and human law, conclusive proof of guilt. The statement that no one who was conscious of innocence would resort to concealment was substantially an instruction that all men who did so were necessarily guilty, thus ignoring the fundamental truth, evolved from the experience of mankind, that the innocent do often conceal through fear or other emotion. The legal influence which this language must have exerted on the jury was increased by the subsequent instruction that it was as old [160 U.S. 408, 422] as the first murder for the conduct of an innocent person to be different from that of a guilty one. Putting this language, in connection with the epithets applied to the acts of concealment and the vituperation which the charge contains, it is justly to be deduced that its effect was to instruct that the defendant was a murderer, and therefore the only province of the jury was to return a verdict of guilty. It is true that a subsequent portion of the charge refers to the evidence on the subject of concealment as 'proper to be taken into consideration as evidence of guilt,' as going to show guilt. But these qualified remarks did not recall the undue weight which the previous language had affixed to the facts to be considered by the jury. The instruction as to the probative weight which the jury should attach to the fact of flight was equally erroneous. It was as follows: 'And not only this, but the law recognizes another proposition as true, and it is that 'the wicked flee when no man pursueth, but the innocent are as bold as a lion.' That is a self-evident proposition that has been recognized so often by mankind that we can take is as an axiom, and apply it to this case.' This instruction was tantamount to saying to the jury that flight created a legal presumption of guilt, so strong and so conclusive that it was the duty of the jury to act on it as an axiomatic truth. On this subject, also, it is true, the charge thus given was apparently afterwards qualified by the statement that the jury had a right to take the fact of flight into consideration, but these words did not correct the illegal charge already given. Indeed, taking the instruction that flight created a legal presumption of guilt with the qualifying words subsequently used, they were both equivalent to saying to the jury that they were, in considering the facts, to give them the weight which, as a matter of law, the court declared they were entitled to have; that is, as creating a legal presumption so well settled as to amount virtually to a conclusive proof of guilt. In Starr v. U. S., 153 U.S. 626 , 14 Sup. Ct. 919, in considering the power of a federal court to comment in charging a jury on the evidence, we quoted with approval the language of the supreme court of Pennsylvania (Burke v. Maxwell, 81 [160 U.S. 408, 423] Pa. St. 139, 153), saying: 'When there is sufficient evidence upon a given point to go to a jury, it is the duty of the judge to submit it calmly and impartially. And if the expression of an opinion upon such evidence becomes a matter of duty under the circumstances of the particular case, great care should be exercised that such expression should be so given as not to mislead, and especially that it should not be one-sided.' The charge given in this case violates every rule thus announced. It was neither calm nor was it impartial. It put every deduction which could be drawn against the accused from the proof of concealment and flight, and omitted or obscured the converse aspect. In so doing it deprived the jury of the light requisite to safely use these facts as means to the ascertainment of truth. Nor can it be considered that the language subsequently used corrected the error. 'Now,' says the charge, 'there may be exceptions to the general rule. General as it is, it may have its exceptions.' But none of the exceptions thus referred to were called to the attention of the jury. Indeed, taking the language of the charge which follows the foregoing words, it must have conveyed, by the strongest possible intimation, the impression to the jury that the case before them was controlled by the general rule previously stated to them by the court, although other cases might be an exception to such rule. For these reasons the judgment must be reversed. In this state of the case it would ordinarily be unnecessary to consider the other assignments. As, however, the case is before us for the second time, and must be remanded for a new trial, the ends of justice will best be subserved by passing on the remaining assignment; that is to say, the eleventh assignment. The portion of the charge to which this assignment is addressed is as follows:
It is apparent that this part of the charge is replete with the errors which we have already found to exist in the matter which we have already considered. But the instruction contains an additional error of so grave a nature that we call attention to it in order to prevent its recurrence. The manner of contrasting the testimony of the accused with the circumstances connected with the concealment was clearly illegal. The language in which this was done is: 'Bearing in mind that he stands before you as an interested witness, while these circumstances are of a character that they cannot be bribed; that cannot be dragged into perjury; they cannot be seduced by bribery into perjury, but they stand as bloody, naked facts before you, speaking for Joseph Wilson and justice, in opposition to and confronting this defendant, who stands before you as an interested party,-the party who has in this case the largest interest a man can have in any case upon earth.' This [160 U.S. 408, 425] contrast thus made could have conveyed but one meaning to the jury; that is, a warning that the testimony of the accused was to be considered by them as of little or no weight, because he could be bribed, he could be dragged or seduced into perjury. Such denunciation of the testimony of an accused is without legal warrant. Allison v. U. S., 16 Sup. Ct. 252. Indeed, this instruction, besides giving rise to this error, was also, if possible, more markedly wrong from the implications which it conveyed to the jury. It substantially said to them, 'The circumstances as to the killing and concealment cannot be bribed, but the defendant can be; therefore you must consider that these circumstances outweigh his testimony, and it is hence your duty to convict him.' In Starr v. U. S., ubi supra, speaking through Mr. Chief Justice Fuller, this court called attention to the fact that there were limitations on the power of a federal court, in commenting on the facts of a case, when instructing a jury; limitations inherent in and implied from the very nature of the judicial office. In Reynolds v. U. S., 98 U.S. 168 , speaking through Mr. Chief Justice Waite, this court also said on the same subject: '... Every appeal by the court to the passions or prejudices of the jury should be promptly rebuked, and ... it is the imperative duty of the reviewing court to take care that wrong is not done in this way. ...' Admonished by the duty resting on us in this regard, we feel obliged to say that the charge which we have considered crosses the line which separates the impartial exercise of the judicial function from the region of partisanship where reason is disturbed, passions excited, and prejudices are necessarily called into play.
The judgment is reversed, and the case remanded, with directions to grant a new trial.


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Weird, Wonderful and Terrible Movies You'll Never See
If you're a regular mental_floss reader, you might remember Eddie's article about The Day The Clown Cried, the lost Jerry Lewis film. If you just love hearing about movies that you'll never get to see, check out this great article on io9 featuring a massive list of 24 lost films.
Anything on there you really wish you could watch?


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Maryland teens win NJ marbles championship
Associated Press
WILDWOOD – Two teenagers from Maryland have all the marbles.
Marilyn Fisher and Dominic Rudakevych of Middletown Valley won the 91st annual National Marbles Championship in Wildwood, New Jersey, on Thursday.
Forty-two boys and girls competed in the event, in which contestants shoot 13 target marbles outside a circle while trying to keep the shooter marble inside the ring.
Fisher defeated Kelsey Baran of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, to become queen of the tournament. Her brother was boys' champion last year.
Rudakevych beat Luke Gaffigan.
Rudakevych tells The Press of Atlantic City suspense is his favorite part of the game.
Fisher appreciates the skill needed to win.
The 13-year-olds received $2,000 scholarships, watches, trophies and crowns.


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Deutsche Bank, one of the world's largest dealers of gold, has begun storing bullion in Singapore, reflecting the nation-state's growing importance as a financial haven. "Gold has traditionally been stored in London, Zurich, and New York, but there is a serious shift in dynamics going on as the global financial crisis continues to evolve," Mark Smallwood, Deutsche's head of wealth management in the region, told the Wall Street Journal (paywall).
The bank will hold up to 200 metric tons of gold, which would be worth $8.9 billion today, in a vault at the Singapore FreePort, a high-security facility adjacent to the city-state's main airport that opened in 2010. With the promise of legally avoiding taxes and customs inspections, the FreePort has quickly become Southeast Asia's hub for storage of art, jewels, wine, and other expensive goods. Christie's rents more than a third of the space for its art storage service.
Unlike the staid warehouses in Switzerland that provide similar tax shelter for valuables, the Singapore FreePort is a flashy facility—"part bunker, part gallery" (paywall). The steel doors that barricade the vaults may weigh seven tons but still look stylish. The lobby is filled with an enormous sculpture by Israeli designer Ron Arad fittingly titled "Cage Sans Frontières," or "Cage Without Borders." You can see it in this over-the-top video tour produced by the FreePort:
Singapore has quickly established itself as an alternative tax haven by requiring its banks not to reveal their clients and looking the other way as assets enter and leave the country. It has also benefited from newly rich Asians who prefer to keep their money closer to home than more traditional tax havens in Europe.
The irony of the Singapore FreePort is that it was designed by Swiss architects and security experts but competes directly with Switzerland for off-shore accounts. "We offer more confidentiality than Geneva," promised Alain Vandenborre (paywall), president of the Freeport, when the facility opened.
Deutsche's move to store gold there for its clients comes a year after Singapore dropped its 7% goods-and-services tax on gold, silver, and platinum. The bank also has gold vaults in Hong Kong, London, and Zurich.