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...control freak, bossing everyone from underlings to blind dates. Something is very wrong when the beast is instantly more endearing than the beauty, and when a movie written by three women (two of whom did the very entertaining Legally Blonde, also directed by Luketic) becomes an unplanned essay in misogyny. Then again, everything goes awry here. A restaurant scene with Abby wearing vibrating underpants (a gloss on Meg Ryan's fake orgasm in When Harry Met Sally) is an embarrassment; the R-rated jokes earn only smirks; even the obligatory falling-in-love dance number gets botched. Blame Heigl...
Suspicions continue to fester. Frances Kissling, a liberal Catholic and an abortion-rights advocate, declared her "unqualified" support for the Ryan-DeLauro bill earlier this week and promptly launched a broadside at pro-life supporters of the effort in an essay on Salon. "While the new anti-abortionists do not use the same words as their older counterparts," Kissling wrote, "they are thinking the same thoughts...
...Chinalco's Failed Bid Re Bill Powell's essay "Foiled Again" [June 22]: I don't know if I am disappointed at the failure of the proposed deal or the hidden political criticism of China. But I do bet the political tension will never ease when it comes to China. The essay is right to question whether the result would have been different if the deal was proposed by a private company in the West. I believe the root of the problem lies in the differences between capitalism and communism. I have spent 30 years of my life living...
...read your essay "Taco Party" in your book My Custom Van and 50 Other Mind-Blowing Essays. When I went back to try to find it, I discovered an entire rant you'd written about taco-flavored Doritos. Apparently you really love tacos and write about them a lot. ?? Tacos run through my work. Tacos are essential to my oeuvre. A taco done right has pretty much your recommended daily allowance of everything. It's God's perfect creation...
...like Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease or kidney disease." The drug has also recently entered clinical trials as a human cancer treatment, while another study published last year showed that it may reverse mental retardation caused by the genetic disease tuberous sclerosis in mice. (See TIME's photo-essay "Access to Life...