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...seen an R-rated movie. She's not perfect--although Mormons avoid caffeine on principle, she drinks the occasional cherry Diet Pepsi. "It's about keeping yourself free of addictions," she explains, sitting on a huge couch in her living room. "We have free will, which is a huge gift from God. If you tie that up with something like, I don't know, cocaine, then you don't really have a lot of freedom anymore...
...Western Wall, Judaism's most sacred place, which they have just liberated. "There was such a euphoria of survival after the war," he recalls. "But it brought on the first seeds of messianism. Israelis started to say 'Who are we to give away this [captured] land, this gift of God?' " That was the turning point, says Rubinger. "Religious extremists on both sides think that God is with them...
...JUDE STATUE This gift from a supporter arrived just before McCain's political resurrection last August. The patron saint of desperate causes perches permanently at the edge of Davis' desk, in the exact spot it occupied when McCain started to surge...
...curious, but certainly valid, take on a favorite American holiday. Along with the myth of the self-made man, Samuels examines the personal responsibility of those who believed Hogue’s lies. Essential to Hogue’s success—along with his gift to run incredibly fast for incredibly long distances—was his ability to play on the desires of everyone around him; he “made himself into a screen on which people could project their hopes and dreams.” To what extent does Hogue deserve the blame and to what...
...Walter Vale struggles in his weekly piano lesson to bend his fingers into the correct position. As his teacher departs, she tells the aging economics professor, “Learning an instrument at your age is difficult, especially if you don’t possess a natural gift for it.” In case the viewer hasn’t grasped the depths of Vale’s despondency by the end of these first few shots, they will soon: in the opening scenes, he gazes forlornly out a window at laughing college coeds, eats at an empty table...