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...first do no harm" (Feb. 16, 9 p.m. ET, ABC) has the requisites of a made-for-TV noble weepie: a disease, an innocent victim and an ordinary mom who becomes a wily fighter for her child's life. The film also has Meryl Streep, the most honored actress of her generation, in her first TV movie in 20 years. In the recent Marvin's Room, Streep played the selfish mother of a troubled child. But ...first do no harm" is better--less because of its heroine than because of its collective villain: the doctors to whom we entrust...
...permanent feature of College life. It has been one of the foremost rallying points of students on this campus over the past few years and has come to a head only recently with a push from this paper as well as the newly democratized Undergraduate Council. Finally, Dean Lewis et al. have recognized that the demands of work imposed by the College require a 24-hour work and study space. No longer will we tolerate arguments that nighttime studying is unhealthful or that we ought to plan our lives more efficiently to be able to work during...
...Egypt with godchildren"). This year she has also graced us with her Martha by Mail product catalog, each item--like the set of "Araucana egg soaps"--a homage to muted chic. And now we have her second annual Christmas special: Welcome Home for the Holidays (Dec. 10, 8 p.m. ET...
Nevertheless, based on the genetic analysis and three different personality tests given to their subjects, Lesch et al. assure us that a large majority possessed the short gene and that this gene had a significant association with neuroticism, tension, suspiciousness, worry and pessimism, and fear of uncertainty. Research has not yet been conducted on whether the short gene is also linked to irritability over badly subtitled foreign films...
This unlikely partnership between the modern American minimalist and the chain-smoking Gallic dandy has resulted in 1993's Orphee, 1994's La Belle et la Bete and now Les Enfants Terribles, each based on a film of the same name by Cocteau. Distinguished not only by Glass's familiar, artful brand of minimalist music but also by Cocteau's impish, erotic sensibility, the operas are nevertheless quite different from one another. Orphee was a conventional opera that followed the script of the original film. With La Belle, Glass went a step further, stripping the film of its sound track...