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...idling about in late summer to make this low-budget picture a hit. That, however, is not quite the whole story here. Yes, the dialogue is reliably obscene, not to say misogynistic, homophobic and not reproducible in these genteel pages. But it is often--how one hates to admit this--funny in its deplorable way. And truth be told, there is also something curiously innocent about the movie...
...Cooper's Testimony Time correspondent Matthew Cooper's account of what he told the grand jury investigating the leak of the identity of cia officer Plame [July 25] increased my level of trust in journalists several notches above its usual place - that is, below used-car salesmen. Cooper admitted that he couldn't make perfect sense of some of his notes, didn't have infallible recall and didn't know all the legal ramifications of everything that happened. He actually seems to think that he can be a little like the rest of us and still be a reporter...
...isn’t often, though, that a competitor as fierce and fiery as Blake will admit, “I generally don’t have a lot of fun losing, but this was a lot of fun to play...
...everyone is waiting for the law to change. More and more hospitals are following the lead of pioneers like the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Lexington, Ky., and Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Md., in establishing formal policies requiring medical staff to promptly admit and apologize for mistakes. Having adopted that approach, the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor, which encompasses the university medical school, three hospitals and numerous other health facilities, has seen its annual number of malpractice claims and lawsuits drop almost 50%, from 260 in 2001 to 140 in 2004, and its average legal expense...
...meetings without substantive progress, negotiations were recessed until the week of Aug. 29. The participants?North Korea, the U.S., South Korea, Japan, China and Russia?have yet to reach even the most basic accord. Still, none of the governments committed to this exercise in conference diplomacy is willing to admit failure...