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Towelhead Written and directed by Alan Ball; rated R; out now Making the offensive funny is not easy. It's even harder when your protagonist is a 13-year-old girl, and your subjects are sex and race. Ball's film is as cringe-inducing as an after-school special but with a larky tone that invites the audience to feel complicit. One word...
...While direct advertising is illegal in Canada, Michael R. Law, one of the paper’s authors and a research fellow at the school’s department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, recalled that as a child growing up in Toronto, he would frequently see advertisements for prescription drugs while watching American television programs. [CORRECTION BELOW...
...Sept. 11 story, "HMS Study Finds No Influence from Direct Drug Ads," misstated the roles of the two authors of the study in question. Harvard Medical School professor Stephen B. Soumerai was the co-author, not the principal investigator. The study was in fact the doctoral dissertation of Michael R. Law, who was the paper's primary author. The error was a result of erroneous information provided by the Medical School's communications office...
...interview, she is worried that some of the programs she started may not continue.While Martin was serving officially as an advisor on diversity to the dean of FAS, she said that Smith did not appear interested in her advice.In contrast to Deans William C. Kirby and Jeremy R. Knowles, whom she described as “attentive” to her input, she said that Smith was less engaged.“He was so new to the job, he had such a long list of things to do,” Martin said. “We talked about...
...ever met a head of state, she raised her unshaken hand like a badge of honor: "We've got to remember what the desire is in this nation at this time," she said. "It is for no more politics as usual and somebody's big fat résumé maybe that shows decades and decades in that Washington establishment where, yeah, they've had opportunity to meet heads of state...