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When George Clooney set out to make “Good Night, and Good Luck,” he wanted to do more than just tell the story of the television journalists who brought down Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy in the 1950s. Clooney wanted “to make a film as a journalist would make a film,” star David Strathairn—who plays the protagonist Edward R. Murrow—tells a roundtable of reporters in Boston last month. “Everything in the movie was double-sourced...
...have a student center. Princeton’s Frist Center has become the poster-child case for what might be. “It’s sort of like students’ home base on-campus,” wrote Princeton Undergraduate Student Government President Leslie B. Joseph in an e-mail. The Frist holds classrooms, dining areas, meeting space, a theater, and a “multipurpose room” for such uses as important conferences and “Princetonian Idol”—just the type of student center that Harvard students have been...
Disappointingly, director George Clooney's movie about Murrow is, at best, unimposing. Focusing on Murrow's conflict with Senator Joseph McCarthy, whose campaign against an alleged domestic communist conspiracy redefined (at least until recently) political cynicism in the U.S., Murrow (well enough played by David Strathairn) becomes in the film a chain smoker in a suit, making pretty, unexceptionable speeches in support of the First Amendment. They are unshadowed by doubt or fear or, indeed, any sense of what made Murrow and his producer, Fred Friendly (whom Clooney plays), such virtuously embattled figures. The movie's appeal...
...restricting gays from the priesthood may not be just a question of staying true to doctrine. Sources close to then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger say he was outraged by details of the clergy sex-abuse crisis in the U.S. and elsewhere and the high rate of priests preying on teenage boys. And although there is no correlation between homosexuality and pedophilia, the current Vatican thinks cracking down on the former will help correct the latter...
...wouldn't prevent someone from becoming a priest," he says. All four church-contracted psychologists interviewed by TIME agreed vociferously with his contention that homosexuality doesn't make one more likely to sexually abuse children. For instance, Father Gerard McGlone, a Jesuit psychologist and a vice president of Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, believes some tightening of the admission process is appropriate: "I think to a certain extent the Vatican is correct in trying to weed out unhealthy expressions of the homosexual experience." But he is also worried that tougher guidelines might backfire by encouraging gay or sexually confused...