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...accounts, Ford was a devout Mormon and family man who sat down to dinner every night with his wife and his two sons and daughter, who are now in college at Brigham Young University. He taught Sunday school and gave free physicals to Boy Scouts. Hunter Hammill, a Baylor University professor who has known Ford since they were medical residents at UCLA, says Ford was a "boy genius" who not only won awards and patented treatments but also "knew everybody and everybody liked...
...then we find that the life is nocturnal. Actually, in the early drafts, we had a female convict. I was tired of movies like Lost in Space and Starship Troopers; they're basically just white guys in space. I like the Muslim contingent in the movie. They're devout Muslims, and they're not terrorists...
...Pitch Black can be smart, and it knows that you can be too. The survivors include a group of devout Muslims on their way to "New Mecca" whose faith adds an interesting, if somewhat puzzling dimension to the movie. Disaster forces the question, "where is your God?" The answer turns out to be, like so much else in this film, a welcome surprise...
This was the campaign Bush set out to run, with that talk of restoring the dignity of the office--and McCain is beating him at his own game. "People want to elect a statue," observes Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating, a devout Bush backer. "They want a hero, an unblemished and unvarnished guy in the White House. They don't want to revisit the agony of the past eight years. Bush has to show his character is unvarnished and unblemished." But he's going to have to get past McCain...
...Instead, Keyes draws mostly from the religious right--"people of a very traditionalist orientation," as Lichenstein puts it. Despite the Protestantism of conservatives in the American heartland, Keyes, a devout Catholic, still finds a passionate common ground on issues that religious conservatives see as nothing short of Biblical. "Alan deeply believes that abortion is murder," Lichenstein says. "In this sense, he and John Paul II--you would find no difference between them. Because of the depth of his belief, he could not possibly do otherwise...