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...until the Ramoses arrived next door. "After these folks moved in, things quieted down a bit with me," he says. Judge Williams has told the Ramoses and the Krafts to "close this chapter in your lives. Get over it and move on." Yet her solution does have a potential flaw: a few months from now, the Krafts, who vow to stay in their racially mixed area, are going to settle in next to some other family. "Once they get to know us, they'll know where we're coming from," says John Sr., somewhat cryptically...
...cute idea to have Cruise, the movies' all-American guy, gussied up like Pierre Clementi, protopunk of French art films. It's a bad idea to let Cruise vanish for almost an hour in the middle of his picture. But by then the film's central flaw has been exposed. A vampire story needs vampires, sure, but it also needs a human victim to lead the audience into the vortex and help them escape it. Otherwise, the fear factor evaporates, and you get this mishmash: an interview in a void, a vampire movie with underbite...
...play's climactic scene, in which the three women "give birth," with unexpected results, illustrates this central flaw. Over wrought and suffused with vague religious symbolism, the birth scene simply fails to deliver the promised moment of redemptive "magic...
Some reporters highlighted every possible flaw in the study, prompting epidemiologist Janet Daling of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle to defend her team's work. She pointed out that the investigation followed 1,800 women over a seven-year period, making it one of the largest studies ever to examine the relationship between abortion and cancer. "I'm absolutely appalled that politics is entering into the science of this study," the researcher complains. "No one is getting any of the correct information out to the public...
...scientists' method of calculating the universe's age is based on the assumption that it has been expanding ever since the Big Bang. If the age estimate is wildly wrong, then there could be a flaw -- possibly a fatal flaw -- in the Big Bang theory...