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...hour series, which begins on Feb. 5, takes place in a state-of-the-art hospital built on the grounds of--cue minor-key music--a textile mill that burned down long ago. The lead characters include Dr. Hook, played by long-lost Brat Packer Andrew McCarthy, a "brilliant" surgeon who isn't so brilliant that he can find a home outside the hospital basement or a hobby outside of collecting scalpels. Diane Ladd is Mrs. Druse, a "psychic hypochondriac." Bruce Davison plays Dr. Stegman, a hopelessly incompetent yet arrogant doctor. Naturally, the spirits of the child workers who died...
...This summer Connecticut faced a $2 billion deficit over the next fiscal year (a whopping amount considering the state budget for that period is only $13.5 billion), which put Rowland in an ugly fight with his legislature. Taking his cue from Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who dispatched his Texas Rangers to hunt for Democratic lawmakers in a redistricting battle, Rowland at one point sent out state troopers armed with subpoenas to round up Connecticut legislators slow in reaching a compromise. As it was, Connecticut was one of six states to miss its deadline for producing a budget. When...
...primary concern. Israel's recent gestures aimed at building Palestinian confidence in Abbas - lifting some closures, easing some travel restrictions, releasing some prisoners - are unlikely to be sustained, and have in many cases already been reversed. And all Palestinian militant groups will likely take the new upsurge as a cue to resume attacks both inside Israel and on the settler population in the West Bank and Gaza. The Palestinians claim they're simply avenging Israeli attacks on their leaders; the Israelis insist they're targeting key leaders in self-defense against terror plots. The resulting resurgence in violence leaves Abbas...
...anguished but inevitable path toward completely including homosexuals. "Many people say, well, it's a matter of time," says Lamin Sanneh, professor of religious history at Yale. But fast-growing churches in the Third World and evangelicals are unlikely to follow this path. Some Protestants, he says, take their cue from evolving "cultural standards," others from set ideas about Scripture and tradition. For the Anglicans, it will take a considerable leap of faith to bridge the divide. --Reported by Simon Crittle/Concord, N.H., and Marguerite Michaels/Minneapolis
...victim of those old stress nightmares. Generally I'm backstage, I don't know my first line and I'm waiting for the cue. I guess they're just anxiety dreams...