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...Olympic opening ceremonies are usually where good intentions and bad taste merge into something profoundly silly--and there was no reason to expect anything different from Athens 2004. With the weight of ancient mythology, Olympic history and western civilization piled on its nervous shoulders, surely the Greeks would give us papier-mache Argonauts fleeing from an angry Zeus robot. Or a children's chorus performing a Zorba medley at the Acropolis. Or at least Yanni. But last Friday, Athens introduced a surprising new element to the show: class, or at least its cousin, restraint. History was referenced...
...embryos. For many people, that is morally unacceptable. In the U.S., the Bush Administration has limited funding for stem-cell research for that reason--a decision that is now a campaign issue. "I have a clear conscience," says Stojkovic, who holds that life begins after 14 days, when the nervous system starts to form. London-based Human Genetics Alert warns that the techniques could be used to clone babies, something Stojkovic opposes. "I believe in embryonic stem cells," he says. If he can come up with a cure for diabetes, many people will believe along with...
...Saddam, I thought, 'This person is an accused.' If I had started to think, 'These are men who killed many thousands of Iraqis,' I couldn't do my job." SADDAM'S JUDGE, RAID JUH AL-SAADI, who has decided to abandon his anonymity, when asked if he was nervous about confronting the Iraqi dictator...
DIED. ALEXANDRA SCOTT, 8, spunky young cancer patient whose front-yard lemonade stand grew to a national, million-dollar charity research fund; of cancer of the nervous system; in Philadelphia...
...also very intimidated by the leading actor, Rex Harrison. I learned later that Rex had said to our director, Moss Hart, "You either get rid of that kid, or I go," but I didn't know that at the time. Rex was nervous for a very different reason: he had never sung before and didn't think he could. The orchestra was very daunting for him, and so he demanded the most enormous amount of time. I felt left out of the loop. The miracle was that Moss must have seen something in me when I didn...