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...couple weeks back. Celebrities usually never reveal such intimate details. But after Tom Cruise navigated the publicity storm so well by making himself out to be the victim of their breakup, it seems that Nicole's spokeswoman saw a prime chance to take revenge. Now Tom suddenly seems the callous one for dumping a pregnant woman...Strangely, I find myself listening to Ace of Base a lot these days. I guess senioritis extends to personal taste as well. But where should I draw the line? Suppose I start craving Celine Dion ballads, John Grisham novels, or-gasp-Gwyneth movies...
...brothers came to bid farewell to her. They drew up their chairs to the foot of the bed where she lay unconscious, and they were very still and solemn for a while, but in due course they got to talking about cars. It struck me at the time as callous--I was 20 and a poet--to sit by your dying mother and discuss a particular low-mileage Ford station wagon you'd seen on a used-car lot in Anoka, and now it seems like the most natural thing in the world. Life goes on. Your mother is dying...
...have opened formerly cold and callous eyes to the desperate need to help our sisters and brothers in Africa. DAN KOWBELL Toronto...
...Poverty combined with a lack of interest in a crime that ultimately victimizes foreigners has led to some surprisingly callous responses. Authorities in the Czech Republic, for example, have stamped foreign victims' passports with an "undesirable" mark and dumped the women at the border, according to a recent report from the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights. In Moldova, even a doctor in the venereal disease clinic treating women who have returned to the country believes their troubles are in most cases self-inflicted. "A woman's sexual behavior is entirely her responsibility," declared Viorel Kalistru...
...critic caused quite a stir a few years ago by reviewing the Bill T. Jones dance production "Still/Here" by not reviewing it, saying that she would not actually watch the performance because she found the underlying conceit of the show (AIDS patients perform dances about their illness) to be callous, manipulative and morally bankrupt. While I wasn't under the impression that "Survivor I" had any of those qualities, my review without a review said that it had an even worse one: It was boring...