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...series of books he wrote urging children to stay away from gangs; by lethal injection; despite his claims of innocence and appeals for clemency, supported by such activists as Snoop Dogg and Joan Baez but denied by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the U.S. Supreme Court; in San Quentin, Calif...
...that money is going into the pockets of drug-company shareholders. New tools do not necessarily translate into better health. We cannot say we have made true progress in the field of medicine until we fix the appalling inequities of America's health-care system. ELLEN WU Oakland, Calif...
...fast and action-packed--none of the film adaptations of J.K. Rowling's books, this one included, have been able to fully capture the essence of Harry. The movie versions cannot put us inside Harry's head the way Rowling so deftly does. MARIANNE L. ADAMS Diamond Bar, Calif...
...University, sometimes omitted Joseph from the Nativity. When present, "he's either disinterested or separate, a doddering old man with a bald head or gray beard, a stock character," she says. The Rev. Michael Morris, an expert in art and Catholic theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif., says Joseph was occasionally painted sleeping through the event. This may have been a nod to his prophetic dreams, but Morris notes that even among Catholic clergy today, "if someone says he's going to take a St. Joseph's meditation, it jokingly means he's taking...
...earliest bits, he impersonated a band of scared grade-schoolers performing Rumpelstiltskin. Within a few years, he had become America's most celebrated comic revolutionary. Frustrated with the safe material he was doing on TV and in nightclubs, he walked out on a gig in Vegas, moved to Berkeley, Calif., and began talking about the things that mattered to him: race (assaulting the audience with the once taboo word nigger), sex and his own colorful, often tumultuous life. He re-created the street characters--winos, pimps, junkies--he had grown up with in the Peoria, Ill., ghetto, where his grandmother...