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...even ten years after he leaves her, because, as he cryptically explains, “she understood the geometry of things.” But while Docx’s talent for character creation is impressive, it can sometimes lead him toward caricature. It is as if Docx, justly reliant on his tremendous skill for description, occasionally lets himself become a little lazy in crafting the characters he describes, some of whom retain the strange, menacing darkness that would fit better in a Dan Brown novel. Selfish, conniving, and sometimes senselessly cruel, these characters seem inappropriately one-sided alongside...
...laity to come to its own informed and conscientious conclusions about when human life begins or whether women should be priests. Vatican II, the modernizing church council of the 1960s, emboldened that lay assertiveness among U.S. Catholics as never before; the pedophile tragedy has made the laity's self-reliant spirit irradicable...
...would want to be with, probably, my mom because she could take care of me and I wouldn’t have to do any major survival things.RR: This is going be in the paper. Are you sure you want everyone to know you’re reliant on your mom?TS: Well, I can’t do anything about it now.RR: Is there anyone you really wouldn’t want to be with?TS: I wouldn’t want to be with Caroline [R. Giuliani ’11] because she is just?...
...enforcement by the FAA - something that passenger advocates certainly welcome - will not necessarily mean a better summer travel season. Airlines are under even greater cost pressure than they were last summer, when one in three flights suffered delays. And changing the culture of the FAA so it's less reliant on airline self-regulation, as the Department of Transportation's Inspector General recommended this week, will require significantly increased funding for inspectors - something that's unlikely to happen by Memorial Day. Kate Hanni, who became an outspoken activist for a still-pending passenger's bill of rights after being stuck...
...blogs, these new media outlets draw their facts from many of the same sources of investigative reporting. While it is commendable that so many voices can now be heard, the decline in in-the-field reporting will adversely impact the journalism industry. Fewer reporters means analysts are increasingly reliant on the same wires and sources as others. This has already been evident in the number of identical articles drawn from the Associated Press filling the pages of papers across the nation. When budget constraints necessitate that something gets cut, investigative reporting is often the first thing...