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...upcoming issue of the national Roman Catholic weekly America: "If early on some bishops had been willing to claim full responsibility and resign, victims, parishes, the media and juries might have been less inclined to vent their anger on the church as a whole. That not one bishop (except the two who were themselves abusers) has resigned during this 15-year-long crisis is astonishing...
Especially for the grimly chipper Jessica (Jennifer Westfeldt). Spotting what sounds like a perfect soul mate in a personals column, she also spies trouble: the ad is in the lesbian section. But, still, what's wrong with having an innocent drink with Helen Cooper (Heather Juergensen)? Nothing--except that Helen is a lot more decisive than Jessica. The design for living they develop can hardly be called a romp. It is, instead, an edgy exploration of role playing and sexual choice in a climate where all options are acceptable--even to Jessica's mom, who is not as traditionally suburban...
...chief was off. The official said opposition from drug companies and conservative media had snuffed his chances, a source tells TIME. Wood, who sits on an FDA advisory panel and the editorial board of the New England Journal of Medicine, wouldn't comment on his aborted appointment, except to note, "Drug safety is an issue that everyone should embrace...
...apologies to all. I should have shown more empathy, although Swift makes it hard. It's true "working father" isn't in the general parlance. The notion rarely arises except when a man discovers a sudden desire to spend more time with his family which follows a sudden demand he give...
2002’s best film, Steven Spielberg’s critically debated and audience-panned A.I., was unsurprisingly ignored by the Academy (except for in the visual effects and score categories). The public’s (and the Academy’s) reaction to A.I. is indicative of a grander thought on the state of American cinema. A.I. was the only film last year that was in any way daring (except for perhaps the jarring L.I.E.), but not in the way traditionally, and quite annoyingly, associated with new stylings of cinema. It didn’t have violent deaths...