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...Pudding had an invite-only punch event planned for last evening, but was forced to call off the event when dozens of unexpected guests carrying fake invitations arrived at the doorstep of the club...
Some of the strongest opposition to the new programs comes from religious leaders, who are worried that the government is trying to lay the problems of the poor on the doorstep of the churches. Others fear they will be forced to water down their spiritual message and purge religious concepts like sin and God until their work begins to resemble any other bureaucratic undertaking. "The disease of compromising the message will not be felt immediately," says Phil Strickland, director of the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission, the Southern Baptists' statewide public policy arm. "It will be like a cancer that...
...newer American nightmares: an allegedly grown child who turns up on the parental doorstep asking for his old room back. Not to mention all the other emotional comfort zones of the past. Usually this occurs when either a career has stalled or a marriage has crashed and burned. But there's no either/or for John Henderson, played by the depressives' national treasure, Albert Brooks, who also directed Mother and co-wrote it with Monica Johnson. Blocked as a writer and devastated by divorce, Henderson goes home in part because he doesn't have a psychological leg left to stand...
...coverage of Richard Jewell is a case in point. In its lead staff editorial on Tuesday, The New York Times laid nearly all the blame for the unjust treatment of Richard Jewell at the FBI's doorstep. They characterized the media's pursuit of Jewell and the stakeout of his home "regrettable," but peripheral. Ultimately, the editors said, the FBI was at fault for conducting an investigation based entirely on circumstantial evidence, rumor and hearsay. The FBI does shoulder considerable blame for leaking Jewell's identity to the press. Eager to close the case, they counted their chickens before they...
...companies already offer services that let a computer user totally customize his or her daily supply of information: "I'll take the Washington headlines, please, plus the health news, N.F.L. scores, updates on AT&T's stock price--and anything on Madonna." The Daily Me has arrived on our doorstep, not with a thump but with a polite mechanical chime...