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...allow federal funding of embryonic-stem-cell research. A majority of Americans and members of Congress favor such research, which holds great promise in curing such diseases as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and diabetes. Whatever Bush decides, in the end it will probably be left to Congress to craft a compromise over all kinds of research involving human embryos. Last week's vote was a test of conscience for the moderates who represent the swing vote on these issues, a chance to show where they are willing to draw some lines, raise some guard rails...
...demons, audience struggles to find the remote. It's worth seeing, though, because James Franco uncannily channels the sulky, sexy, short-lived heartthrob. Franco recalls not just Dean's recklessness and (cue E! True Hollywood Story music) his icy relationship with his father (Michael Moriarty), but also the acting craft of a phenom who lived hard and left a good-looking memory...
...Something of an obsessive in my youth, I must have played "What?d I Say" a thousand times on my plastic 45 in the third-floor back bedroom. (My parents, indulgent and slightly deaf, were two floors away.) I think even then I responded as much to the musical craft of the piece as to its hedonistic invitation to "shake that thing." It?s break from earlier Charles work was evident from the first note -on an electric piano that sounded like a guitar with a mitten muffling the strings. It was blues, all right, but (like so much other...
...Congressional conferees are still working to craft the final language of that definition. But don't expect to see the finished product until at least September - they've postponed defining failure until after their late summer recess...
...five key organizers of the wildly successful Games in Sydney, which beat out Beijing by two votes back in 1993, and made them China's exclusive counselors. For more than two months last year, Phillips and friends spent 16-hour days in Beijing helping craft key documents. When the International Olympic Committee sent an evaluation crew to grill the committee, Phillips and his team suggested answers the Chinese might have muffed, such as making them omit the usual "evil-cult" epithet from comments on the underground Falun Gong spiritual movement. Phillips even solved Beijing's dreaded puppy problem. Many Chinese...