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...story. Her husband, a corrections officer, was murdered a few years before. She had taken up boxing--her ring name is "Lady Tiger"--because you can't raise a kid on waitress money. Her monologue went from defiance ("You'll see my album. Lady Tiger don't stop") to despair ("You ain't going nowhere in Detroit. Nowhere") to dignified resolve for her son's sake ("We're never going to quit, are we, angel?"). It was a haunting slice of life, more authentic than any ER subplot...
Death is always a part of a President's schedule. But there was something in Ronald Reagan's heart--and he had the ability to convey it--that seemed to give special comfort to the bereaved. When Challenger exploded as the country watched, national exhilaration was instantly plunged into despair for those young lives pinched out in the first seconds of their great adventure. Reagan read a wonderful text by speechwriter Peggy Noonan and lifted it into immortality: "The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we'll continue to follow them..." He may have understood better than...
...doesn't exude much hope, its director does. "I've had nothing but faith and love for this film from start to finish," he says. "I had no doubt this was a great film." Palestine's first movie celebrity has reason to feel buoyant. For all its death and despair, Divine Intervention has a pinwheeling, tragi-comic verve that leaves a complicitous smile on the viewer's face. Or is it a rictus...
...despair when I look at who has the power today. I'm just waiting for reinforcements: the public has taken the right to abortion for granted, but I believe the opposition will actually be what convinces the American people to fight back...
...passionately over the ethics of cloning, and research on embryos in general, found themselves united in their disgust. When he saw the Raelians on TV, says Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, he thought, "Preposterous announcement by kooks." But he also felt despair, as did many scientists who believe that the only way the most morally intricate research can proceed is by keeping it away from charlatans. "I knew they would have a very damaging impact on the cloning debate. First, they would just plain scare people," Caplan notes. "The Raelians...