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...surrogate mother is persuaded to treat the same bond as negotiable. For all the complexities, however, surrogacy is one of the simplest and most venerable of the new conception options. Even the Bible offers a parallel (in the Book of Genesis, naturally). When his wife proved unable to conceive, Abraham impregnated her handmaiden Hagar, who bore Ishmael. There were hard feelings in the aftermath of that arrangement...
...partisan commentators look to this scandal as vindication of Abraham Lincoln's words, "you can't fool all the people all the time." And those are fine words to vindicate. But the election of another ardent conservative, Ronald Reagan, after the humiliation that was the Nixon Presidency, would seem to prove that while you can't fool everyone all the time, you certainly can do so when their collective memory fades...
...hospitalized in November, Danny picked him up and brought him home. Says Danny: "As the years went on, I mellowed. Today I have no antipathy toward Neil. I stopped myself from writing plays, he didn't." Danny often jokes that he has had more plays written about him than Abraham Lincoln or Julius Caesar -- six by his count, from Come Blow Your Horn through Broadway Bound -- and older brothers are featured in at least two of Neil's other works. By far the most tender portrait appears in Brighton Beach Memoirs. Zeljko Ivanek, who played the role, recalls learning that...
Josephson is outstanding as Alexander, the Abraham, traipsing around in his Yin-Yang bathrobe, setting sacrificial pyres on the family frontporch. The supporting cast is also excellent, highlighted by Gisladottir as the surrogate Mother of God. But if the film belongs to anyone, it is Edwall...
...could not (as the official version states) have struck both Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally, and others who give evidence suggesting that Oswald was the patsy in a conspiracy, possibly involving Oswald's killer, Jack Ruby. The trial includes a detailed examination of the famous film taken by Abraham Zapruder, including the horrific frames in which the President's head literally explodes from a gunshot...