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Biggest Mail getter: The Supreme Court...
...income world? Hollywood hasn't been much help. From Michael Keaton in the 1983 movie Mr. Mom to Adam Sandler in Big Daddy (1999) to Eddie Murphy in Daddy Day Care (2003), the sight of a man caught in the act of parenting has been a reliable laugh getter--always a good indicator of what the culture considers uncomfortable material. For every Pursuit of Happyness, there's a movie like this summer's Knocked Up, which plays not so much as a tribute to fatherhood as an effort by men to convince themselves that fatherhood is all right...
Kathy Pippin, Cookeville, Tenn. MAILBAG Biggest mail getter: Universal national service 76% A government call to service would enrich the nation 24% A government call to service would only violate the definition of volunteerism
MAILBAG Biggest mail getter: Bloomberg and Schwarzenegger 46% The Wall Street mogul and the Hollywood star have shown Washington how to get things done 54% The Mayor of Gotham and the Kindergarten Cop just want to create a nanny state HOW TO REACH US Our e-mail address is letters@time.com Please do not send attachments. Our fax number is 1-212-522-8949. Or you can send your letter to: TIME Magazine Letters, Time & Life Building, Rockefeller Center, New York, N.Y. 10020. Letters should include the writer's full name, address and home telephone and may be edited for purposes...
...five other incumbents are all running for reelection, and McGovern, who was the third highest vote-getter in the 2003 election, is likely to have an edge at winning a seat...