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...point. (The series reportedly had the President say about gay AIDS victims, "They that live in sin shall die in sin.") CBS claims it didn't cave but decided the production didn't meet the standards of a broadcast network. (To which we must reply: So how do you explain Baby...
...even a year ago," says Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, which released a study showing the country more polarized than it has been since 1994, when angry voters put the Republicans in control of Congress. This hardening of attitudes also helps explain why the swing voter, so sought after during the 1990s, is getting less attention. The name of the game for both parties is getting their core voters to the polls. Turnout increases last week were especially dramatic in areas President Bush visited in his campaign sweep the weekend before...
...kind of book, "graphic novel" has become increasingly dissatisfying. "Maybe for a short window it was enough to say 'graphic novel' but soon it won't be," says Art Spiegelman, "because if you talk about [Chris Ware's] 'Jimmy Corrigan' as a graphic novel you'll have to explain that it's not manga or Marvel. Then you are left saying, 'well it's got a seriousness of purpose' that the phrase 'graphic novel' alone won't offer." On the positive side, the public awareness of these books has vastly increased, creating a kind of renaissance era of intense creativity...
...pressure meant that I had to be really careful with my information: my details, the models that I built; I wanted there to be no stupid mistakes, none that could be avoided,” Macaulay said. “Here I am, a Westerner, trying to explain Islamic architecture at a time when Islamic things are on our mind...
...contribute to a disproportionate amount of all abortion procedures. But those percentages do not demonstrate the difficulties the women faced, or the huge number of unwanted pregnancies by low-income mothers that were carried to term instead. The difficulties associated with access relate specifically to early abortions, which may explain why there is still a need for safe and legal partial-birth abortions: according to the same study I cited earlier, “Nearly half (48 percent) of women who had late abortions attributed their delay to ‘difficulty making arrangements for the procedure?...