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American dysfunction! Is there anything more comically inspiring than a hard, hilarious look at the reality behind this ruling cliché? For all the exaggerations in Michael Arndt's script (jauntily directed by the husband-wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris), it comes closer to the truth about the way people really live--on the edge of fantasy-driven desperation--than our sanctimonies permit us to think...
...alien to the Western tradition, but the cartoonish quality that our society imposes on scientists is much the same, just in a different direction.No scientist is any more worthy of worship than he is of reviling. Scientists are humans, above all—humans with an abiding faith that truth can be discovered through empirical investigation perhaps, but humans still. There is reason neither for veneration nor trepidation. But why stop there? We should not be afraid to question their conclusions, especially on issues that affect all of us, such as climate change or embryonic stem cells, yet we should...
...looked at the swimming pool outside, back at him and then at the pool again. He saw the woman she could be. The conversation they had that night, he thought, was one of their best. Andrea was unguarded. Later she told him that the Haldol injection was a "truth serum"--and that she hated how it caused her to lose control of herself...
...screen, the contrast with the cosmopolitan city he left behind - and the thought that a return might be years away - was almost as demoralizing as the dire reports themselves. "If I have to stay here another week, I think I'm going to go crazy, that's the honest truth," Wehde moaned. "I need to stop thinking about this, but it's impossible. If there were any girls here, that would help. But there aren't any, not really. The ones there are, they're religious. They won't talk to you." For now, he says, his only plans...
...play a role on both sides. As he reminded us, we are the judges. Audrey Mayville Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S. The press might have less difficulty withholding the details of ongoing national-security programs if it were not distracted by the grandiose notion that it must "speak truth to power." A better objective would be to provide accurate and useful information. That may not sound as exciting, but it is a clearer conception of what the public needs. Clay Boswell New York City I trust the government more than I trust the media these days. What might keep journalists...