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...help get the child back. And three ... well, The Missing (which opens Nov. 19) is a western, but Blanchett is no cowgirl. "I kept telling her, 'You looked great on horseback in Elizabeth!'" says Howard. "And she says, 'One shot, Ron. One shot.'" Maybe she'd prefer a throne...
...current House bill contains significant incentives for seniors to leave the conventional Medicare plan in 2010 and join private HMOs and other managed care insurers. This is likely to become controversial because, according to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health poll, 63 percent of seniors would prefer to receive their benefits from the current government Medicare program—as opposed to 19 percent who would prefer that benefits were managed by private health plans...
...Muslims continue to prefer education in madrasahs, schools that emphasize Islamic orientation. They do not inculcate national values. A direct impact of undereducation is poverty among the majority of these people. It is therefore incumbent upon all Muslims to enter the mainstream and overcome their biases. This would trigger better employment opportunities. Sadly, Indian society is getting more polarized each day. Ullal V. Nayak Bangalore, India...
...with happiness, laughter and respite from rationing, poverty and rebuilding during the difficult period following World War II. The man was a comic genius, and although he had the luxury of scriptwriters, he was always quick-fire with his own natural wit. When his family asked whether he would prefer burial or cremation, his response was, "Surprise me." Hope passionately supported the U.S. all his life, even though he was British born. His dedication to entertaining the troops in the field was legendary. Hope was the 20th century's comic icon. Philip Hartley York, England...
...twins, Krauthammer wrote, "were not seeking self-destruction; they were seeking liberation. And they were trying to undo a form of mutilation imposed on them by nature." If the twins were willing to die rather than continue living attached to each other, that's hardly different from people who prefer death to being trapped in a diseased or dysfunctional body. There are those who do not believe that death is oblivion. Patrick Ivers Laramie...