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...Farrell) and a Tony winner (Ehle) ought at least to provide solid acting, and in stretches it manages that. Voight, navigating some dreadful dialogue, doesn't make a misstep; Norton executes his usual business of revealing little but threatening plenty; and Ehle, her head shaved as a cancer patient, deftly underplays her function of providing the poignant feminine touch. But by the the movie's climax, which discards the standard sibling shootout for bare-knuckles barroom machismo, and throws in the instant insanity of a secondary character that nearly stokes a race riot, Pride and Glory has waived all rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Fast Takes from Toronto | 9/14/2008 | See Source »

...site—which will be launched by the end of the year, though a preview site is already available—will serve as a professional network for the medical community and a platform for patient groups...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summer Happenings at Harvard Medical School | 9/14/2008 | See Source »

...Texas Medical Center is under some kind of a lockdown. Workers who came on duty last night arrived with suitcases. They'll stay until Sunday. My 80-year-old godmother has been a patient at Methodist Hospital for five days. Her doctor told me yesterday that if she wasn't released by noon today, she's staying until Monday. She's eager to go home, but he wants her to stay. "We know you'll have food and water and someone to take care of you here," he said. After Tropical Storm Allison flooded generators in 2001, the Med Center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Houston Waits for Hurricane Ike | 9/12/2008 | See Source »

...Soumerai said that even if direct advertising raises patient awareness, there have been no behavior changes in the drugs physicians prescribe...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HMS Study Finds No Influence from Direct Drug Ads | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

...from their constitutionality, of course, the other question surrounding curfews is whether they are effective. Bernard Harcourt, author of Language of the Gun: Youth, Crime, and Public Policy, argues that good police work is the better answer. He compares imposing curfew ordinances to "using a Band-Aid on a patient who is hemorrhaging - you might be able to stop the blood flow in one spot, but it's not going to help the bleeding." Problems like drug use, gun possession and gang membership, he insists, won't go away "just because you force youths to stay at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Curfews: A New Crime-Fighting Tool | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

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