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...questions on the curve. Is Three Burials his homage to the Texas landscape? "Homage is not the kind of language that would often be heard in those parts." What about the film's political meaning? "To explain what it means is self-defeating. I could have written a political essay. I made a movie...
...essay by Patricia Marx, "Check out My New Numbers," with totally made-up statistics about President Bush [Dec.19], was a real dud. I have no problem with puzzling over the strange mind of W. or with Time's taking up a full page to develop a keen, witty perspective on some topical issue, but Marx's piece was, at best, filler. It seemed like one of those papers I wrote on the school bus on the way to class despite having had two weeks to get it done. TOM WRIGHT Burke...
Alito was given a test. As part of applying for the job, he was asked to write an essay attesting to his ideological credentials. "I am and always have been a conservative," he wrote in uncharacteristically bald prose. With those eight words, along with a note that he was "particularly proud" of memos he had written suggesting limits to affirmative action and abortion rights, Alito sealed the promotion...
...answer to that essay test suggests a paradox that may play out on Capitol Hill as the Judiciary Committee opens hearings for a Supreme Court nominee for the second time in five months?after nearly a dozen years with none at all. Supporters and former clerks affectionately describe Alito as nerdy?more academic but also less polished than John Roberts, who addressed the committee without notes on his way to confirmation in September as Chief Justice. Yet Administration officials say they are certain that Alito will attract fewer votes?in the committee and later in the Senate?than did Roberts...
...Showing Gays the Door My thanks to Andrew Sullivan for his thoughtful essay, "The Vatican's New Stereotype," on the Roman Catholic Church's new rules barring gays from the priesthood [Dec. 12]. He expressed so well how I have been feeling?like an outsider in the church that was my home for 67 years. Although I have at times disagreed with church teachings, I have always felt like part of the fold. But the new exclusion cuts me to the core. I don't recognize Jesus in the new rules. It is more than a homosexual issue; it wounds...