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...follow. "What do you expect when the government and the President do all they can to crush peaceful, nonviolent protests?" asks the Rev. Joseph Foreman of Missionaries to the Preborn, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. "We will not be outraged over the one death and not the other 4,000 precious human beings that were killed today by abortion," he says. Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue, said he regretted the act but noted that, after all, Dr. Gunn was a murderer of babies...
...should not win her tenure at Harvard, nor should it take the place of balanced scholarship as a required academic credential. For CCR, which claims to champion civil rights, to endorse her candidacy reflects utter hypocrisy. No civil right is more important than free speech, and few are more precious than the equal protection of the law. Only Orwellian doublespeak can justify granting a bigoted censor tenure under the guise of promoting civil rights. Who will CCR support for tenure next? Leonard Jeffries? Hans Bader Second-Year Law Student
Today's complete divorce of campaign word and elected deed is far more inimical to good government than the sensible and fair limitation of suffrage. With a limited electorate trained in the analysis of political rhetoric and well versed in the issues, politicians would gain precious little through even the most artful equivocation and seductive demagoguery...
...President came to the screening room in the residence with time for only one run-through. The tough passages about taxes and spending had been moved up four pages, but the President laughed at the new ending. "I had written about 'these precious moments,' " Begala recalls, "and he says, 'Paul, do you want me to start dancing up there?' " Begala had inadvertently written in a line from a popular song in the '70s, When Will I See You Again. Clinton told Begala to play with the notion of CARPE DIEM, written across a sweatshirt Begala's mother had given...
...Desire" also shows off the vibrant, stylish production Almodovar is justly famous for. The movie plays slyly with dubbing and visual perspective in a way that never comes off as precious; Almodovar is careful not to let his tricks upstage the story he tells. Half romance, half horror flick, "Law of Desire" displays a ferocious energy sadly lacking from Almodovar's more recent efforts; it showcases the full talents of a director who can make audiences squirm...