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...shouldn't go to a movie just because a director tried hard. There are plenty of independent films whose ambitions point only toward conventional storytelling. It happens that there are four new movies aiming higher, farther, stranger. And they won't be mistaken for Home Alone or even The Long Walk Home. Call them off-Hollywood movies, because they have sworn off Hollywood...
...York City has also shifted strategies. In the mid-1980s, under the administration of former Mayor Ed Koch, a single positive toxicology report was enough for authorities to take a newborn from its mother. But a series of cases of mistaken charges of child abuse helped lead to a change of policy under Mayor David Dinkins. In one notorious example, Brooklyn bank clerk Judith Adams lost custody of her child for nearly two months after the medication that doctors gave her during a caesarean section resulted in a false-positive drug test. "Instead of breast feeding my baby...
That tide is still running and with it the mistaken notion that weaknesses not only constitute part of human nature but absolutely define it. Suetonius would be amazed at the likes of Kelley and at the prospect of biography as target shooting. When the Roman noted in passing that Augustus had been accused of effeminacy and of softening the hair on his legs by singeing them with red-hot walnut shells, the information was presented as simply another part of a complex mosaic of personality. Nothing to get excited about or to stop the presses for. Nancy Reagan should have...
THREE DAYS before the Gulf War ended, I wrote that "those who think conquering Iraq will take only a few days and light American casualties are tragically mistaken." I was wrong. But on the basis of evidence available at the time, this was the only logical conclusion...
...world. America is not the world's policeman, nor should it be, nor can it be, no matter how much Congress inflates our military-industrial complex. If Bush thinks the U.N. would mobilize to defend Ethiopia from Mussolini (as the League of Nations failed to do), he is sadly mistaken...