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...request. In the U.S., though, religion and faith-based politics intervene in a way that baffles Europeans. "It would have been handled very differently in Europe," says Wim Distelmans, chairman of the Federal Commission of Euthanasia in Belgium, where euthanasia is permitted if performed by a doctor after an adult patient clearly states a wish to die. "Because of the politics, it's now impossible to have a sensible debate on the issue in the U.S." Writing in the Times of London last week, foreign editor Bronwen Maddox said the Schiavo case "shows just how emphatically the U.S. and Europe...
...novel, but she didn’t talk about it overmuch,” writes Willig’s friend Elizabeth W. Mellyn in an e-mail. Mellyn, a fifth-year doctoral student in history—who, as it happens, is working on The Relic Thieves, a young-adult novel set in fifteenth-century Italy—knows something about balancing fiction with graduate-level history...
...reminded of Jeff Smith's gigantic "Bone" series (see TIME.comix review), which coincidentally is now being reprinted in full color by Scholastic books, but "Dungeon" doesn't have quite the cohesive, epic story of "Bone." It also contains more explicit, but still "cartoony" violence and includes a few adult words. If it were animated, it would probably earn...
Joan Cusack, a granola-type adult education professor, and Casey’s mom, plays the same brand of pushy mother, but on the opposite extreme. The feminist philosophies with which Cusack has attempted to indoctrinate her daughter are at times completely overstated, and will, of course, be easily sublimated...
...Amelie. The grass is green and the skies are blue at Christmastime, and all the houses are neat and uniform. This works for the parts of the story that take place primarily from the perspective of the ever-imaginative Damien, but is less believable in the scenes of adult perspective...