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...annulment system, at least among conservatives, has been of its generosity. U.S. Catholics in 1994 received 54,463 annulments, 75% of all those granted worldwide and more than 90% of all they requested. Some people wink and call it "Catholic divorce." Others, like former Pilot editor Philip Lawler, are grim: "To speak in economic terms," he says, "the inflation of annulment has debased the currency of marriage...
...government, led by a man of 43 who will be the youngest Prime Minister since the early 19th century and who, for the first time, will bring young children to 10 Downing Street. It will be touching and reassuring to see kids' bikes and cricket bats in the grim hall of that historic house...
After a decade of grim headlines about spiraling hospital bills and shifty HMOs, the boom in self-medication comes as no surprise. "People are fed up with the high costs and side effects of drugs," says Earl Mindell, a registered pharmacist and author of Secret Remedies (Simon & Schuster, 1997), a new study of the self-care movement. "We're doubling our knowledge about nutrition every 18 months. So people wonder, instead of treating the symptoms as we've always been taught, why not help your body fight off the problem in the first place...
DIED. ANN PETRY, 88, African-American novelist who immortalized a grim Harlem street and its human casualties; in Old Saybrook, Conn. In The Street (1946), she shows how the hopes of its Harlem inhabitants were desiccated by a malevolent urban wasteland...
...Grosse Pointe Blank, its title punning nicely on a famously grim movie about a hit man, is not a one-joke comedy. Nor is it, despite its Disney auspices, cozy family fun. In its soft-spoken way, it is fierce, shaggy and deeply weirded...