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...arrogance alienates him from his wife (Isabella Rossellini) and son. They -- like John Turturro's determinedly patient psychiatrist, a specialist in traumatic stress, and Tom Hulce's determinedly impatient tort lawyer, trying to extract a settlement from the airline -- would prefer a more humble and malleable response to a near death experience...
While stem cells are scarce and difficult to extract in children and adults, they are plentiful in umbilical-cord blood. For that reason, the new gene- therapy technique is particularly applicable to newborns. And the parents of both infants involved in this month's California experiments had ample warning that they would need the new treatment...
...Children of Men, James displays remarkable talent in setting up such a complex and intriguing moral and emotional puzzle. But she fails to extract any digestible conclusion from her imaginative spiritual exploration...
...gofer, but it's obvious he's much more than that," says John Brummett, political editor at the Arkansas Times. In fact, Lindsey is the outside, practical manifestation of Clinton's political anima, a campaign unto himself: he took the competing opinions of the staff to Clinton to extract decisions from him, and then he applied his own prosecutorial mind to the candidate to make sure that decision was the best one. He reads everything and remembers what everyone said and when they said it. "He's the tape recorder running when the deal is being cut," says an aide...
...done a good one." But in the early days of the Walsh regime, the players held back, not sure what to make of a coach whose sense of humor once prompted him to disguise himself on the spur of the moment as a bellhop. He then tried to extract tips from his players as they emerged from the team bus after it arrived at the hotel. "In the beginning," says junior quarterback Steve Stenstrom, "he would say something funny, but we weren't sure we should laugh. Now we laugh at his jokes every day. He keeps us loose...