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...Every festival has its stories of the good movies they let get away. Cannes, with the biggest, harshest spotlight, has more of these might-have-beens than most. Last year it turned down Brokeback Mountain, to which the only reaction can be, "Huh?" This year the festival made room for DreamWorks' OK animated feature Over the Hedge but is not showing Pixar's turbo-terrific Cars...
What would Jesus say about AIDS today? In his day, there was leprosy, which was incurable. And Jesus healed lepers. He didn't turn them away. That would be the same reaction today. But Jesus did tell people he healed, "Go and sin no more." And I think that to a person with HIV/AIDS, he would tell them, "Go and sin no more...
Flanagan sounds like a liberal snob with her nose twisted out of joint. As a widely published writer, she's hardly a classic stay-at-home mom. More likely, she is just irritated at the reaction her pieces have received from other liberal writers. But such polemicists do not constitute the soul of the Democratic Party. If Flanagan wants to become a Republican because she got her feelings hurt, she should try getting over herself...
While she is waiting, however, Zapf-Belanger is finding the Harvard reaction “hilarious,” and “just can’t get over how funny it is.” She said that she does not regret her posting. “I’m just too damn pleased with myself that I’m generating so much stir,” she said, giggling, and added that she was “enjoying her five minutes of fame...
According to a study conducted by Dr. Hajime Kimata, from the Unitika Hospital, Kyoto, Japan, 30 minutes of kissing can dramatically reduce the allergic reaction to pollen. Twenty-four men and women with hay fever were told to kiss their partners for half an hour. Before and after the experiment, blood samples were taken to test the levels of immunoglobulin E (IgE), which triggers symptoms of asthma and hay fever by releasing histamine into the blood. Kimata suggests that the significant drop in IgE levels could be attributed to the relaxation induced by kissing...