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...diabetic, doesn't have hypertension or, for that matter, any of the other risk factors that might indicate the need for a C-section. But a combination of having watched traumatic vaginal deliveries in medical school and hearing about her mother's difficult emergency caesarean experience after trying to deliver vaginally helped make up her mind. "I had a fear of going through labor and ending up with an emergency C-section anyway. I know that's rare, but I didn't want to deal with it," she says...
...notably in Nan Goldin and her documentation of the chemical highs and lows of her uninhibited friends in pre-AIDS New York. Much of the reason that Goldin’s work has been elevated to the level it currently occupies, however, is the cultural relevance of her subject matter. Her pictures tenderly tell the story of the pained collapse of the demimonde she inhabited. One by one, the subjects of her photographs overdosed or died of a disease that people then knew little about. They demonstrated a calculus that today is commonly understood—that makes...
...That’s the great equalizer in the NFL—it’s a speed game,” Polian remarked. “So if you have speed, it doesn’t matter where you play college football, not that the Ivy League’s bad football—it isn’t—but it doesn’t matter where you play college football. If you can run, generally speaking, you’ll get a chance to prove you can play...
...fraught as ever. Even though she has avidly researched her past, Yalini’s future remains undetermined by it. Speaking of her parents’ feelings towards her own generation, she says, “We are not quite safe, and they would like to see the matter settled: we leave them with queasy stomachs and unsettled Hearts. But although we are the children of our parents, we have entered other countries in which the rules of Marriage—Love Marriage, Arranged Marriage, and all that lies in between—do not always apply...
...liberal propaganda.” “Liberal Propaganda!” McCarthy said. “I’m going to read it now! I hope they’ve seen the movie!” The audience laughed in response. Despite the heavy subject matter of the film, McCarthy seemed to move from serious issues, such as immigration, to lighter topics with relative ease. Whatever the political nuances that viewers may draw from his latest picture, McCarthy sees his film principally as a form of entertainment, which aims to be as gripping as possible...