Word: doctor
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...Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Terry Gilliam) After Heath Ledger died last year while shooting this film, Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell stepped in to complete aspects of his role. Their gallantry and Ledger's enduring charisma aside, the film is a sodden botch from the mad-genius auteur of Brazil...
...harder than convincing large numbers through eye-catching, sound-biting market psychology. It's a money loser too. Most of the time, a patient who has been sold on something you don't want to use will just leave and go to another doctor. (Read about the five big health-care dilemmas...
...debate energized supporters of both candidates, hundreds of thousands of whom flooded the streets of Tehran after it was over, each side proclaiming its man the victor. Moussavi supporters chanted, "Doctor [Ahmadinejad], remember Moussavi is above you," to which Ahmadinejad supporters responded, "The debate was held, and Moussavi was destroyed...
...those issues returned with a vengeance. A doctor who specialized in the most controversial sorts of abortions was murdered in Kansas. President Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, which restarted a tired debate about affirmative action. And while the blowhards have taken up their battle stations - the leadership of the Republican Party, especially, seems to have shifted from politics to infotainment - the terrain on these issues has shifted subtly in the past few years. (Indeed, gay marriage - once the hottest of hot buttons - seems to be easing toward public acceptance, as state after state approves it.) (See pictures...
...George Tiller was a mass murderer," said the antiabortion extremist Randall Terry after the doctor was murdered in the lobby of his church. But Terry was an outlier. Most of the pro-life movement reacted with appropriate horror - and the talking heads who had exploited the Tiller situation, like Bill O'Reilly, were subdued for a change...