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...concluding that we've lost our will to face or fix anything. We'll just dance with the devils we know, thank you. But if you look past Washington, past Wall Street, turn down the volume and go outside and walk around, you'll find the parcels of grace, of ingenuity and enterprise - people riding change like a skateboard, speeding off a ramp, twisting, flipping, somehow landing with a rush of wind and wheels - and wonder that it somehow hasn't killed...
...something that also at the same time makes you so terrified? I think you have to talk to Dostoevsky or Carl Jung or someone more qualified for that answer. I don't know. Maybe because it's a challenge? Maybe it's some kind of low level search for grace? Why do people do things that they fear? It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear. And the first time you make people laugh? Oh, that is fun. That's a rush...
...cheating spouse, a soul-searching roadtrip, a quest for love, a mid-life crisis. Even the setting evokes a certain familiarity: 1950s romanticism, a jazz soundtrack, pastel cardigans, and a preponderance of dinner parties. But surprisingly, the film transcends the clichés it employs by the grace of excellent acting and surprising directorial choices. Renée Zellweger makes a convincing heroine. At 40, she has proven she can play a wide range of roles, yet she always infuses her characters with personal idiosyncrasies. Much like Meryl Streep, Zellweger is never unrecognizable; she carries certain gestures and habits from...
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That sharp improvement in mortality sounds hopeful, says Grace Lu-Yao, the lead author of the new study, which was published on Sept. 15 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, but it may be chalked up to a variety of factors, many of which have little to do with actual improvements in survival. For one: the classification of prostate-cancer stages has changed over the past 15 years. What might have been considered a Stage 3 or 4 cancer in 1990 would now be considered Stage 5, 6 or 7 - that is, a substantially more advanced cancer, says...