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...these arguments may have their merits. But identifying the causes does little to remedy the problem. A better starting point might be to look for the rare attribute that Mastella claimed to possess: courage. There is a notable dearth of it among Italian politicians, and that is both cause and symptom of the malady afflicting public life. Political courage is, of course, something that can neither be spontaneously declared nor imposed by law. The most cynical Italians will say it is a concept that doesn't even exist. Still, there is no way out of the current gridlock without...
...family's mutation causes a relatively rare syndrome known as attenuated familial adenomatous polyposis (AFAP). Without proper clinical care, people with AFAP - who account for less than 1% of the 153,000 colorectal cancer cases in the U.S. every year - have a greater than two-in-three risk of developing cancer, compared with a one-in-24 chance in the general population. People with AFAP can begin develop colon polyps by their late teens (about 50% develop polyps in teenhood; others, later in life), and people with particularly severe cases are often advised to undergo a colectomy. Though colon cancer...
...rising out of all the smoke and fire. The year after Roe, two-thirds of Americans favored abortion on demand. Now, after years of private and public debate, most people freely tell pollsters they'd prefer fewer abortions, but a majority embraces the inherent contradiction of "safe, legal and rare." "Safe" and "legal" speak to the sad fact of bad options: women who have been raped, whose pregnancy threatens their health, whose fetuses are fatally deformed. "Rare" speaks to a more widely acknowledged recognition that for many people the decision to end a pregnancy comes at a cost...
Once that happened Saturday morning, the Jesuits' modern press operation quickly sent out a press release biography, and a rare photo of the bespectacled new leader. Indeed Nicolas, who has lived almost uninterruptedly in the Far East since 1964, was not on the shortlist of those experts trying to predict who would get the nod. One Jesuit source said, only half-jokingly, after learning of the choice: "He doesn't like Rome...
...Which is not to say that Cassandra's Dream is quite the breakthrough film I think it might have been. It is a talkative film, rather earnest in its tonalities, not at all a deft, witty or well-paced. On the other hand, it is, for Allen, a comparatively rare excursion into lower-class life - the setting is London, as it has been in his two previous films - and its portrayal of the contortions upward striving can impose on people eager to move up in class is cool, well-observed and often even touching - especially in Farrell's confusions...