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...with the prevailing secular intellectual currents. "This pope cares about ideas," says TIME religion correspondent David Van Biema. "He is an intellecutal along with being a mystic, and since postmodernism challenges the harmony between faith and reason, he feels compelled to engage with it." Don't expect him to bump any French metatheorists off Comp Lit reading lists, but rare is the pontiff who displays an awareness of the prevailing wisdom in college-coffee-bar philosophy...
Once you put an all-out scandal in motion, there's no stopping it, which is why I doubt that all this is behind us. We've gone so far as to have ABC bump a football game so we could hear the President confess that he had I.R.'d an intern after all. As overnight polls indicated that most Americans were satisfied by the apology, TV pontificators informed us that it wasn't an apology that would satisfy most Americans. It was limited, they said. This...
Most teen films don't do this well, and most young TV stars can't guarantee B.O. gold. Movies starring Campbell (Wild Things) and the slightly older Friends cast (Picture Perfect, Fools Rush In, Romy & Michele's High School Reunion) typically bump their heads on the $30 million ceiling. Teen movies still serve an old function: to caulk the crevices in the release schedule and create cheap product that, if it doesn't make a bundle, won't lose one either. Like I Was a Teenage Werewolf and the Elvis films of 40 years ago, they are reliable B movies...
...down Mass. Ave., we bump into Detective Frank Pasquarello, public information officer for the CPD. He is taking a group of local blind people out to dinner...
...Crimson has the weapons--on the bump and in the batter's box--to give the Regional a jolt. For its graduating seniors and for the rest of team rapidly making a claim to the top-flight of college baseball, this weekend in Bayou country could be memorable indeed...