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...Miranda slowly recedes from the movie's gaze. It wants to concentrate on the politically (and. more important, demographically) correct Andrea. Its prime audience is young women in the early stages of their career facing hard choices - glam jobs vs. meaningful work, nice dull guys vs. gorgeous, morally slippery hunks - getting seriously tempted, but eventually choosing the right path. Worse, the screenwriter (Aline Brosh McKenna) and the director (David Frankel) decide to show us Miranda's human side. She hates her "dragon lady" reputation, feels guilty over her several divorces and is eventually reduced to telling Andrea that she doesn...
...article on Autism [May 29] by Claudia Wallis was very informative and helped correct many misconceptions about autistic children. In India, not much research on autism is under way. I fear that most of those children are taken to be mentally ill or retarded. The statistics on reported cases of autism in India may be not so grim as those in the U.S., but I feel the U.S. kids are in better hands. I just hope that researchers quickly find a solution to the growing incidence of the condition. It was refreshing to read that helpful schools like Celebrate...
...Develop trust. While al-Qaeda recruits were ready for martyrdom, that was something its more senior officials seemed to have little taste for. As one CIA manager said, "Masterminds are too valuable for martyrdom." Whatever Ali's motivations, his reports - over the preceding six months - had been almost always correct, including information that led to several captures...
...such distinctions exist for many activists, who believe zoo keepers are guilty of "speciesism," the movement's politically correct counterpart to racism. Animals, PETA insists, are no different from people and should be treated accordingly. "There really is no rational reason for saying a human being has special rights," says PETA co-founder Ingrid Newkirk, whose credo...
...doesn't affect what one writes - and if bloggers are re-inventing the journalist wheel, they're still getting around to that one. At the Q&A Warner held with bloggers after his speech, the questions were respectful and sincere. The first one was about whether Warner was correct in asserting that Iran is a greater threat to our national security than Pakistan. A better question might have been, how valuable is the opinion on such matters when it comes from a one-term governor of Virginia...