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...because you believe in the mission, but there is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating," says Spielberg. "Perhaps [your victims] are leading double lives. But they are, many of them, reasonable and civilized too." Killing them, he says, has unintended consequences. "It's bound to try a man's soul, so it was very important to me to show Avner struggling to keep his soul intact." (The moviemakers would not reveal the identity of the real Avner, whom they talked to at length during their research. In Spielberg's opinion, though, his soul was tried...
...much of how we see ourselves--and how other people see us--is bound up in our faces that the idea of transplanting one person's visage onto another seems not just improbable but bizarre. And yet for the past few years, surgeons at a handful of medical centers in the U.S. and Europe have been cautiously preparing for just such a procedure to offer hope to patients who have been severely disfigured by burns or accidents. No one had yet raised a scalpel to try, in part because of numerous medical, ethical and psychological concerns that...
Exceptional circumstances brought these students to Harvard and, given this extraordinary situation, the University should not feel bound by rigid adherence to typical admission rules. These students are not the property of their original universities, to be shipped away on the next flight back to New Orleans; rather, they are important members of our community. Allowing them to apply to transfer will benefit everyone. After all, the original agreement to take these students was not made to help Tulane and Loyola, it was made to help the students themselves. We shouldn’t turn our backs on them...
Hang on to your boarding passes this holiday season--it's bound to be a bumpy ride. Luckily, there's a new generation of travel gadgets designed to ease your passage in style and comfort. Case in point: the Travel Brush Kit, above, from Michael Marcus Cosmetics ($95). It packs eight sable makeup brushes into a compact just slightly thicker than a passport...
Brown and her five siblings grew up in the gritty Ninth Ward of New Orleans. When Brown was 11, her eldest brother John, who she believes was a drug dealer, was murdered. Police fished his savagely beaten body, bound to the bumper and rims from his dismantled Oldsmobile 98, out of Lake Pontchartrain. In her teenage years, Brown was raised largely by her sisters. By 14, she was pregnant with Vivian; Angeline followed barely five years later. Brown lived for a while with Angeline's father in Cobb County, near Atlanta, but he drifted back to his old gangster life...