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...money back? Aren't the studios in business to turn a profit? Normally, yes. But nothing about Titanic is normal. After an arduous shoot during which Mechanic fought bitterly with Cameron and even more bitterly with Paramount Pictures, Fox's partner on the film, Mechanic admits to spending a smidgen less than $200 million. (That's without the additional millions it will cost to market it.) The picture will have to gross about $350 million for Fox to break even...
...book of Genesis long, long ago crumbled under the weight of science," writer Robert Wright displays a puzzling selectivity in then declaring that "the Christian doctrine of original sin makes more sense as evolutionary psychologists learn more about why people do bad things." If Genesis has even a smidgen of relevance in helping us grasp the concept of original sin, why are the scientifically enlightened so adamant that Genesis' assertions regarding origins in general are unreliable? TIM CALLAWAY Calgary, Canada...
...pests? This, after all, is the human way: if you don't like it, rub it out, down to the last molecule of DNA. Like the smallpox virus, which spent a few millenniums cutting down humans by the tens of millions. Now we've got the last little smidgen of smallpox cornered in some test tubes, scheduled for destruction in 1999. Likewise, let a few hunters loose in the national parks with crossbows and Magnums, and it would be hasta la vista, bears...
...congressional campaign and related issues. She absolutely did not admit she lied about a transaction that enabled her to contribute what she believed to be personal funds to her campaign, nor was she "a knowing beneficiary of the con artist--who knows an easy mark is someone with a smidgen of larceny in her heart." By blaming Waldholtz, Carlson cruelly perpetuates a "blame the victim" mentality to explain the blatantly deceptive actions of the Representative's estranged husband and former campaign treasurer, Joe Waldholtz. For years, rape victims were blamed because they left a window open or went out alone...
...many others. Indeed, Joe scammed Enid and her father in the end (for $2 million more than went into her campaign), but that doesn't mean that she wasn't, in the beginning, a knowing beneficiary of the con artist--who knows an easy mark is someone with a smidgen of larceny in her heart. It was Enid who originally employed the "millionaire's loophole" in 1992, before she ever married Joe. Calling on a technique that figured prominently in her campaign-finance course at Brigham Young University, Enid used $150,000 of her father's money by selling back...