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...merely unthinkable—flirting with boys—to the purely satanic bearing a child out of wedlock or being raped by one’s cousin. In reprisal for these transgressions, the nuns of the Laundry subject the women to humiliation, threats of eternal damnation, and pure outright sadism, all of which all but force the women—many of whom had been entirely sexually innocent prior to their arrival—to sell themselves for the slightest opportunity of escape. Not so much an attack on Catholicism as all religion, this film depicts the needless abuses...
...relief under Bush’s new fiscal policies. They also accused Bush of “[handing] over Americans’ retirement benefits to the vagaries of the stock market,” however, Bush’s plan to rescue Social Security through limited privatization was dismissed outright, without analysis of stock market performance or potential safeguards against “vagaries.” Additionally, Begala and Carville lambasted Bush’s right-wing “judicial nominees” (left-wing Clinton nominee Judge Frederica Massiah-Jackson, opposed by Philadelphia’s district...
...merely unthinkable—flirting with boys—to the purely satanic bearing a child out of wedlock or being raped by one’s cousin. In reprisal for these transgressions, the nuns of the Laundry subject the women to humiliation, threats of eternal damnation, and pure outright sadism, all of which all but force the women—many of whom had been entirely sexually innocent prior to their arrival—to sell themselves for the slightest opportunity of escape. Not so much an attack on Catholicism as all religion, this film depicts the needless abuses...
Still, the conflict has never crossed into outright hostility; Farmer echoes Kidder in calling their relationship throughout the research and writing process as close. “He’d be the first to admit, I suspect, that I’m a friendly person and you don’t hang around with someone for years and not become friends,” Farmer says. “Particularly if you’re talking a lot and living through dramatic experiences together...
...column has evolved over the past four years into a bully pulpit for criticizing George W. Bush and his administration, accusing the White House of pursuing wrongheaded fiscal policies and telling outright lies to promote them...