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...Despite the tough talk, the Bush administration is going out of its way reassure anxious allies that diplomacy and economic and political pressure remain its preferred methods of dealing even with those now dubbed "evil." The allies are concerned the noisier atmospherics could harden attitudes in those troublesome capitals, and that rhetoric may have a tendency to create its own momentum...
...college, has a female boss and believes that women are "more thoughtful, maybe even a little smarter, than most men." But his woman's world is becoming hostile territory: he has grown alienated from his students, has just lost a powerful chair position to a woman (Marcia Gay Harden), and is flailing to defend teaching the works of "dead white guys...
...mansion prices. They are crazy because hundreds of them a night are willing to camp out in record heat for free theater tickets. The occasion is an all-star production of Chekhov's The Seagull in Central Park, starring KEVIN KLINE, MERYL STREEP, John Goodman, Marcia Gay Harden, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Natalie Portman and Christopher Walken. But if Chekhov knew how a man of Goodman's girth can sweat, he might have written in a Towel Boy character. In a week when temperatures soared to 103[degrees]F, the actors could at least retreat to air-conditioned dressing rooms between...
...Revelations that scientists at a privately-funded Virginia fertility clinic are growing human embryos with the intent of harvesting stem cells have provoked widespread hand-wringing, among both advocates and opponents of stem cell research. Advocates worry that publicizing such a blatant and systematic cell harvesting procedure can only harden hearts against the science; in the crude terms of public relations, using stem cells from discarded embryos is one thing, but purposefully creating an embryo only to dismantle it is something else altogether. Opponents of the research see the Virginia clinic?s methodology as the best indication yet that...
...That said, the network's highest-profile drama is about a professor going through a midlife crisis. "The Education of Max Bickford" stars Richard Dreyfuss - who, if he's at midlife, will make it to 106 - and Marcia Gay Harden. That, says CBS television president Les Moonves, may make it the first TV program to star two Oscar winners. We haven't scoured the history books on that claim, but we gather that this means "The Geena Davis Show" was just Joe Pesci away from being a television classic...