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...prove he's an imbecile. And who is he to criticize Brooke Shields or any other woman who seeks medical help for postpartum depression? Is Cruise really against prescription drugs, or does the idea of a strong woman taking charge of her health frighten him? Cruise's opinions belong in the Dark Ages. He needs to leave health-care options to medical professionals and their patients. Janice Fisher Midlothian, Virginia, U.S. Cruise's nutty behavior on Oprah was an example of what happens to superstars who reach the top and have no place to go but down. Look at Elvis...
Such work resists categories. In theory, Welch could be placed on the gay studies shelf: he was a homosexual, and his female characters are sometimes men in literary drag. But there is nothing erotically explicit in these stories, no precious attempts at special pleading. He could belong with the invalid writers, like Marcel Proust and Flannery O'Connor, whose illnesses gave them a vital solitude. But unlike them, Welch had little interest in society. As his biographer, Michael De-la-Noy, notes, "Politics, literature, indeed the entire world outside his bedroom window, scarcely existed...
Your special report, "How to Get Fitter, Faster," should be read by every American [June 6]. Many of my patients belong to the new breed of pill-popping couch potatoes you wrote about. I have laminated the pages of your magazine's stories and hung them in the reception area of my office. It's a little thing, but the patient has to stand up to read them...
When the Justice Department abruptly changed course last week, reducing the penalty sought to $10 billion, critics cried foul, charging it was a reflection of the Administration's ties to the tobacco industry, including a Justice Department with a handful of high-level political appointees who used to belong to law firms that represented Big Tobacco. "The public has to be on the lookout for clandestine negotiations," says Matthew Myers, a witness in the case and president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids...
...several professors have criticized Kirby’s divisional appointments system, saying that it transfers power to four administrators that should belong to the departments, and that it might also decrease attention to women in the hiring process...