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...picture reaches its end, it appears that the filmmakers have to explain who is actually behind all of those terrible deaths. I won’t spoil the inevitable “twist ending” that has been used to sell the movie, but let’s just say that causal relationships go out the window, where they will certainly find the company of reason and Dakota Fanning’s dignity. Ultimately, “THE PART OF THE MOVIE THAT COMES AFTER EVERYTHING ELSE” proves to be just as vacuous and phony...
...part, I have my new peers to thank for the change. I’ve never had to defend or even explain myself to any of them. Except for one scary incident when, after going to a movie together, my one-time date told me that he would never “ever” consider marrying someone who did not share his nationality, the issue has never come up. It’s not a taboo subject, but I just don’t find myself thinking about my blackness or, for example, the other person?...
...parties, or making out with the president Joe Lieberman-style, “obstructionist” is something any Democratic leader would have been labeled. Daschle’s failure wasn’t stopping too much Republican legislation; it was stopping too little—and failing to explain why Bush’s whole philosophy (and not just a particular bill) is bad for South Dakota, and bad for America...
...Vatican instruction. One reason: in a region where the first question you're asked when you meet someone is often "What church do you attend?," Rider is in constant contact with Evangelicals and other Protestants who are still mystified by Catholics and frequently "call us onto the carpet to explain what we believe. It has helped take me back to the basics of my faith." Says the Rev. Jay Scott Newman, pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church, less than two hours south in Greenville, S.C.: "Here you're not Catholic because your parents came from Italy or Slovakia...
...this disapproval of ambition limited to Harvard. How else to explain, really, the American people’s preference of George W. Bush to John Kerry? With his Vietnam buddies and his youthful Senate testimony and his medals-throwing, Kerry just seemed a little too—grasping. A favorite gauge of public opinion in the months leading to the election was the pollster’s question, “With whom would you rather have a beer?” The consensus was generally that Bush would be your man. Ambivalence about Kerry has been attributed to Kerry?...