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...Starring Mel Gibson, David Paymer...
During his appearance last year at Sanders Theatre, Mel Gibson ruffled some feathers with his wry words of advice. "Life is like a shit sandwich," he cracked. "The more bread you have, the less shit you have to eat." He sticks by this motto tighter than Post-it notes in his new movie Payback, even at the threat of ten broken toes. Never has so much been wrought for so little...
Roman Catholicism as practiced in America is not a consistent phenomenon. The day after John Paul left Missouri, Governor Mel Carnahan commuted the sentence of a convicted triple murderer from death to life without parole. Carnahan, a Baptist, announced that "I continue to support capital punishment," but after the Pontiff's "direct and personal appeal...I decided to grant his request." The irony is that while the Pope's argument that "the dignity of human life must never be taken away, even in the case of someone who has done great evil" may have swayed Carnahan, if only temporarily, Gallup...
...crucial line separating church and state was blurred last week in Missouri when Pope John Paul II came to St. Louis to preach against the death penalty and Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan listened too carefully, commuting the death sentence of triple murderer Darrell J. Mease...
Poor Thomas Capano. On the same day last week on which Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan, under pressure from the Pope, decided to commute the sentence of a convicted killer from death to life in prison, a jury voted to send Capano--a convicted killer in his own right--to Delaware's death...