Word: resistant
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...resist him? Mouth agape, face slapped between his hands, Culkin's visage is America's home-sweet-home version of Edvard Munch's The Scream, with the angst pasteurized. In the just-released My Girl, a story about a motherless, hypochondriac tomboy and her best friend Thomas J. (Culkin), he does the unspeakable for a preadolescent (has his first screen kiss) and the unthinkable for a budding megastar (dies well before the end). "It was easy," says Mack. "I just pretended I was sleeping." It could turn out to be the most talked-about movie death since a hunter shot...
...started out 26 years ago with a budget of $5 billion -- was designed to provide decent care for the elderly. But the program gives the same benefits to those who are well-off as to the elderly poor. Though the elderly do pay some of the costs -- and staunchly resist bearing more of them -- nearly 90% of Medicare funds come from payroll taxes on workers. As a result, the burden falls partly on laborers who have no health insurance of their own and may have trouble making ends meet...
...couldn't resist asking him how he could be so sure of his facts without knowing any gay people at Harvard. "How can they be happy?" he asked. "They're always talking about how they're victimized and oppressed." He added that gays were racked by "misery and internal torment" rooted in "the way they define themselves...
...homosexuals' belief that there are others like them. Gay people, as R. Wasinger points out in "If You're Gonna Call Me Names," clearly can not be happy, and must benefit from Peninsula's particular, condescending brand of Tough Love, which seeks to persuade gays that "human beings can resist their impulses," ("Caritas," p.38) i.e. that with enough perseverance gays can discover true moral and physical satisfaction through the practice of heterosexuality. The fact that Peninsula ignores the abundantly documented failure of a multitude of efforts to convert homosexuals, among them prolonged subjugation to electro-convulsive (shock) therapy, neither surprises...
...could not be sure that Aung San Suu Kyi even knew she had been awarded the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. But if she has access to a shortwave radio, she would have learned the news from overseas without delay. As the head of an opposition using "nonviolent means to resist a regime characterized by brutality," read the Nobel citation, Aung San Suu Kyi has become "one of the most extraordinary examples of civil courage in Asia in recent decades." Within hours much of Burma -- which the ruling junta has renamed Myanmar -- was whispering the news...