But, you know, its a hard call. Sissy spacek has had such a great career, right . North country, affliction, so many great films. Heres one, though, that deserves consideration anew. 1985, movie by the name of marie. It was a true story. Sissy spacek was the lead and title character. She played a little known Tennessee State official named marie rajiante. She was a whistleblower in a big scandal in the state of tennessee, a big scandal that had just an astonishing ending, an ending that we apparently as a country need to study now at the end of the Trump Administration because this scandal is literally the only thing i know of in our modern American History that might help us out in terms of whats supposed to happen now and how the craziness we are living through right now is supposed to resolve. And luckily this one isnt just history that we have to look up like in random ph. D. Thesises and old newspapers. Trust me, i have done that with lots of statelevel scandals. Luckily this one
Hard call. Sissy spacek has had such a great career, right . North country, affliction, so many great films. Heres one, though, that deserves consideration anew. 1985, movie by the name of marie. It was a true story. Sissy spacek was the lead and title character. She played a littleknown Tennessee State official named marie ragiante. Marie was a whistleblower and a big scandal in the state of tennessee, a big scandal that had just an astonishing ending, an ending that we, apparently, as a country need to study now at the end of the Trump Administration, because this scandal is literally the only thing i know of in our modern American History that might help us out in terms of whats supposed to happen now and how the craziness we are living through right now is supposed to resolve. And luckily, this one isnt just history that we have to look up, like in random ph. D theses and old newspapers. Trust me, i have done that with lots of statelevel scandals. Luckily, this one really does have
Decision when to actually submit the article of impeachment to the senate where they will go ahead with the trial. And this is essentially the last act of Speaker Pelosi in the Trump Presidency, in the sense he has one week left. The senate will try him after hes gone. And Speaker Pelosi going to send this over shes going to make the case for House Democrats that they had no choice but to do this, even though the president is in his final days, he asked for this, he deserved it and this is the only way to have closure and justice, is to hold him accountable for what he said at that rally one week ago before the rioters hit the capitol. Her words are very important here. So too are the next words from the president of the United States because now the big question is how many republicans will vote to convict him in the senate. This is a very different climate. We are in very different times than the first impeachment trial when only mitt romney, the only republican to vote yes on one co
Endowments of colleges and universities with wealth over a billion dollars. Is there a logic for colleges and universities having their endowment taxed in one way or another. In other words, what business is of it government to decide how schools devote their resources. The schools want to reduce the endowment, they can do it. Theyre not really forced to there are some arguments they are. I believe those are what is the government doing in mucking around in this . Our answer is that the government certainly has at least a very plausible basis for mucking around in this because the subsidizes for the tax system are such that they are really much encouraging this. First of all, donations to these organizations are tax deductible, second of all, the revenue generated is not taxed. At all. Its not taxed theres no taxation at all. So it further subbization of this relative to the private sector. We think that its perfective sense only raise the question. We dont think think its a good answe
Once the governor issues upardon, thats it. And for those who dont know who Roger Humphrey is, please read the book. Captured the drama of the story, and it is a stunning story, lee smith was part of it. Frank sullivan had his hand up. This much detail as you have in your book, you had to encounter factual what was theigst conflict you had that you had to resolve . Whether it was toms neck tie or [laughter] thats true. And the answer was, it was toms neck tie. But we respect him. I say that in because because i was struck by how much Common Ground there was in the shared memories of these people. 30 years later. It was astounding that how the things happened in the afternoon in the hotel room, that call that chapter the title of the chapter is, the dance. How did that go . And thats a bill coke, i was very patient how all that worked and but there was an extraordinary level of agreement this many years later and, thought that was profound. Question . Im curious, [inaudible] did either