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...more painful because the uproar over his "evil" remarks erased the nuance in his original argument. Bauer went from defending McCain to demanding that he retract his "unwarranted, ill-advised and divisive attacks on certain religious leaders." Every stop required another clarification, another apology. "We've made a lot of mistakes in this campaign," said McCain on Thursday at a press conference where he desperately tried to bring the subject back to other issues. "Primarily because we don't have the most brilliant candidate...
...report on wunderkind actor (sort of) Leonardo DiCaprio [CINEMA, Feb. 21], Joel Stein managed in the nicest possible way not only to inform and entertain us but also to give the subject enough room to hang himself. DiCaprio is silly, shallow, ill informed about subjects he pontificates on, and very, very young--intellectually and emotionally. But these are not indictable offenses. DiCaprio has shown himself to be a fine young actor in some films. I won't see The Beach until it comes out on video, but I will continue to read Stein faithfully. CHRISTINE ROSANIA Chicago Heights, Ill...
DOCTOR DEATH In Oregon, the only state that permits physician-assisted suicide, that option was chosen by 27 terminally ill patients last year, up from 16 in 1998. A new study finds that most of these suicides involved insured, well-educated and elderly cancer patients rather than the poor and depressed, as the law's critics feared. A survey of doctors, however, found that most patients who ask about suicide change their minds after getting enhanced pain treatment...
...twig is bent, the tree is inclined. ("A young child is even more open to cultural and family influence than an older kid," a psychologist told the New York Times. True. But older kids were once young--that is, when they got the firm dispositions, for good or ill, that later resisted social influence...
...twisted chandelier), replicas (staterooms, the cargo hold and the grand staircase) and even part of the hull. Letters, photographs and quotations from passengers are poignant. Most chilling: a 9-ft. by 16-ft. sheet of ice. Pressing their hands to it, visitors learn that the salt water that ill-fated night was colder still...