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Religulous Directed by Larry Charles; not yet rated; out now A documentary from the famously godless comedian Bill Maher and the director of Borat creates hopes of a rowdier, sharper exposé than this one. A series of impious questions posed to believers of every stripe, Religulous (soft g) has its funny and offensive moments, but it lacks the pungent personality and editorial skills of any Michael Moore movie...
...enough to address publicly the nastiness of the McCain campaign. Klein has spelled it out exactly as it is. I cannot help wondering if his age and melanoma history have caught up with this man, resulting in an inability to be rational. One day, he is very cordial and soft-spoken; another day, he is very harsh and condemning. If he is elected, we will not have four more years of the Bush Doctrine but four more years of Bush, Cheney, Karl Rove and Donald Rumsfeld rolled into one. God help us. Mary Helen Haskell, BLOOMINGTON...
Biehl wrote that her concerned eighth-grader asked, "We don't have any stocks, do we, Mom?" She said she soft-pedaled any concerns about his college fund to stop the panic. Biehl, whose parents filed for bankruptcy when she herself was in college, wrote: "I briefly explained that it's all cyclical." Still, on the Monday of the vote and subsequent market crash, Biehl took a look at her 401(k) and discovered she had lost $6,300. "But then I thought, I have still doubled my money since I first started investing and - as I wrote...
...importance of negotiating with rogue states: "You will never solve your problem until you sit around the dinner table and put your grievances on the table and find out how to move forward ... Some people equate that with being soft - that if you do not pound the table and if you do not scream, then you are being soft. I think this is a total misconception...
...good as whites to get half as far. A few Democrats - and feminists - expressed disappointment at her convention speech, with its subtext of, Ignore my race and my Ivy League education and look how warm and maternal and unthreatening I am. But others, including, presumably, Michelle herself, recognized this soft approach as a necessity...