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...Secret Service •need of to improve defense against incoming shoes...
...Dawson, glammed down in hospital gowns and an invalid's grayish sheen, is knowing, giving and (her word and ours) hot. She's splendid at showing how someone who's tucked herself into the reclusion of her illness wills herself to bloom in the presence of someone with a secret mournfulness greater, and perhaps less curable, than her own. It's a lovely performance, in part because her character throws every charm she's got at the one man who seems doomed to deflect...
...paying it forward, not inward. A child undergoing cancer treatment, a mother whose boyfriend abuses her, a blind pianist (Woody Harrelson), a young woman suffering from congenital heart failure (Rosario Dawson) - each of these, and three others, he showers with rejuvenating gifts. His motive is the movie's secret...
...took four years of screening before the team had chosen its recipient, a woman whose cause of disfigurement is being kept secret along with her name. Once she'd been chosen, the surgical team had to await a compatible donor - someone whose tissue matched the recipient's, but also, for esthetic and psychological reasons, who was of the same race, gender and approximate age. The call to alert Siemionow that a donor had finally been found came in the middle of the night earlier this month, and her team was hastily gathered. The operation began at 5:30 that afternoon...
...perpetual struggle in Somalia has demoralized its people so much that lawmakers made no secret of their embarrassment about the parliament they belong to. "There is no transitional or any other government in Somalia," lawmaker Ahmed Omer told TIME. "Parliamentarians can go to bed at night with one idea and wake up in the morning with another. It's a frustrating government...