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...Than Fiction has a surer aim at getting through the brain to the heart. Zack Helm's script imagines a decent, solitary fellow named Harold Crick (Will Ferrell), then springs the notion that he may well be a fiction--a character in a work in progress by reclusive novelist Karen (Kay) Eiffel (Emma Thompson). And when Kay figures out how to kill off the character, Harold will...
...including government officials, doctors and ethicists concluded that inoculations should be given first to key workers like police and nurses, then to those who would respond best to treatment--healthy 15-to-40-year-olds, not infants or seniors. "A worst-case scenario poses the hardest questions," says panelist Karen Gervais, a health-care ethicist. This strategy "is intended to protect the most people in the most vital ways." But the panel also decided that society's weakest could and should be helped in other ways, such as quarantine...
When the FBI raided his daughter's home three weeks before Election Day, Pennsylvania Congressman Curt Weldon figured he knew exactly whom to blame. The agents were looking for evidence that he had used his influence to help Karen Weldon win lobbying and consulting contracts, but the 10-term Congressman wasn't mad at just them. "It's a woman who runs an organization called CREW," he complained to a blogger for the Daily Pennsylvanian. That woman is a tenacious 40-year-old former prosecutor named Melanie Sloan, whose targets have included Tom DeLay and Mark Foley. She is executive...
According to a presentation given at the meeting by Director of the Office of Research and Analysis Karen R. Menard and the Registrar of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Barry S. Kane, supplemental questions are expected to be widely used for foreign language courses, expository writing courses, and classes with laboratory components...
...perhaps the first time in his congressional career, he's facing some formidable opponents. In the Nov. 7 open primary, he'll go up against 12 other candidates, including Louisiana state representative Karen Carter, who has the backing of the state's Democratic establishment; former city councilman Troy Carter (who is not related to Karen); and state senator Derrick Shepherd, who launched his campaign with a direct attack on Jefferson's fitness to lead. There's even a well-financed Republican, attorney Joe Lavigne, vying for the solidly Democratic seat, and such is the state of things in New Orleans...