Word: ridding
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...hero of the original People Power movement who was also accused of coup-plotting against former President Corazon Aquino, is calling for People Power III to bring Estrada back to power. Enrile's crowds are far smaller than the 700,000 people who poured out in January to get rid of Estrada. Nonetheless, it's a dramatic gesture of sympathy for the first Philippine President to be tossed in a jail cell. One certainty: when Joseph Estrada stars at his own trial, it's bound to be a ratings...
...themselves queasy about the procedure. Kerri Faughnan, a medical student at the University of Colorado, split her time in an ob-gyn elective between an in-vitro and an abortion clinic. Swinging between women desperately in love with their eight-week-old fetuses to others desperate to be rid of theirs left her discomfited by abortion. But she echoes others in arguing that with studies estimating that 43% of women will have an abortion by the time they are 45, this is a procedure she needs to understand...
Each of these characters tells his story to an avid listener: Randy to the hitman (Michael Douglas, who also produced the movie) he has hired to rid himself of Jewel; Dehling to his brother (Richard Jenkins), who is a priest; Carl to a psychiatrist (Reba McEntire)--wow, this is a well-cast movie. But none of them can do much more than offer sympathy for the poor dopes' entrapments. For what is possibly the funniest thing about McCool's is how easily the men fall into Jewel's clutches...
Therapy has been a mixed bag for Tony Soprano. It helped him figure out that his mother was trying to kill him, but it hasn't got rid of the panic attacks--and the new girlfriend he met in Dr. Melfi's waiting room isn't doing a lot to help his rocky marriage. Still, those sessions on the couch in The Sopranos may be having an impact outside the show. More tough guys who never would have considered therapy are breaking down and seeing a shrink, and some say Tony is one reason. "Tony's a tough...
...books that are reportedly piled in his office. He can’t put up his feet on the antique furniture. He can’t even read this paper behind his own desk, if he reads this paper at all. Why can’t Rudy get rid of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM...