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Down on his luck and out of work, Marc D. Goldfinger, a homeless heroin addict who by his own admission hadn't worked an honest day's work in years, found an organization that needed...
...truth be told. When I got here last week my first thoughts were not of exploring my new house, or even of crashing the Freshman Mixer. Within a few hours of my arrival, I marched myself over to the Science Center basement. Like a frenzied addict, I plopped myself in front of one of the large new monitors and got ready for a quick fix. Surfing the internet for the first time in three months, minutes flew by like seconds, hours like minutes...
There are a lot of things McCorvey has done and been that Jane Roe's millions of admirers probably wish she hadn't. Until she unmasked herself publicly in 1989, they could imagine Roe as noble and steadfast, embattled yet triumphant. They didn't envision a former drug addict and dealer; someone so spiritually needy that she ran through religions as if channel surfing; someone testy enough to (in the presence of a Texas Monthly reporter) invite a critic who accused her of killing babies to "bring yours over here and we'll do them...
...Harvard summer school, washed dishes at a Howard Johnson's in Boston, and became engaged (briefly) to a girl from South Carolina who had a white Cadillac convertible and called him "honey chile." He retains a strong affection for America and is in fact an American junk-food addict. "When you're in the U.S. with Chirac," says Foreign Minister Alain Juppa, "there's always a problem: as soon as he sees a fast-food place, he has to stop the car, rush up to the counter and order a hamburger." (Chirac does have a more sophisticated side-he speaks...
...trophy in Losing Isaiah, written by Naomi Foner and directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal, is a black child whose drug-addict mother (Halle Berry) dumped him in a garbage can shortly after his birth. Now he is two-and the point of contention in a tug-of-love between the mother and the family that raised him. Isaiah plays as a court case, with evidence and arguments for each side. But in movie terms, the case is stacked against Lange: next to Berry's radiant youth, she looks sere and exhausted. It is one of those dares a maturing female star...