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...answer the question "When does life begin?" From a Catholic standpoint, the Democratic candidate started off well, telling Brokaw, "As a Roman Catholic, I'm prepared to accept the teachings of my church - I'm prepared as a matter of faith to accept that life begins at the moment of conception...
...passing of time. Director Jon Avnet - who's done some decent work (The War) but was also responsible for this year's lamentable 88 Minutes, also starring Pacino - gives the new movie the grimy New York look and a generic intensity. Yet this is a film that missed its moment. Instead of the meeting of maestros at the top of their form, Righteous Kill has the feeling of Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds facing off for the first time in an exhibition game. It's like Old Timers' Day at the Motion Picture Home...
What Hollywood and the press who cover it once would have treated as an unmissable cinematic moment - a pairing of two of the greatest actors of their generation - is instead being greeted around town with a shrug. "It's like Ali and Frazier are about to fight," says Paul Dergarabedian, president of the box office tracking firm Media By Numbers. "And people are weirdly indifferent...
...campaign changed gears for a moment from attack politics to finding common ground, with Obama and McCain agreeing that ROTC recruiters should be allowed on campuses like Columbia (where they are currently prohibited) and that the next President should recapture the feeling of civic responsibility that swept the country after 9/11. The only material difference appeared to be over the role government should play: Obama proposed tuition tax credits for college students who perform community service and the creation of additional public agencies to encourage volunteerism. "The government's gonna have a role," he said. "I think there...
...Benedict is aiming at the future - and as he sees it, saving souls. He is keenly aware of the challenge in the heart of his native Europe, which has been drifting from its faith over the past century. Friday marks two years to the day from the most potent moment of his papacy, a provocative discourse at the University of Regensburg about how faith and reason can, and must, coexist. Though the Sep. 12, 2006 speech is best remembered for its citation of a Byzantine emperor's insults of the prophet Muhammed, which sparked Muslim outrage, the intended target...