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DIED. Gerry Studds, 69, former Democratic Representative from Massachusetts and the first openly gay member of Congress, whom the House censured in 1983 for having had an affair with a 17-year-old male page; of complications from a blood clot in his lung; in Boston. After surviving the sex scandal, Studds was elected to several more terms, and in 1996 Congress named a national marine sanctuary after him in recognition of his environmental work...
...narration, rare in films of this kind, especially since its tone is often boldly ironic. Yes, it distances us a little from the inevitable banalities of the action. But it also somehow encourages a kind of sardonic sympathy for the film's rather grimly fated players. For another, a sex criminal--a child molester (Jackie Earle Haley), newly released from jail--has moved in with his mother nearby, in a sort of living, breathing nightmare on Elm Street. Is he still a threat? An ex-cop (Noah Emmerich) has no doubt on that point and is devoting his many idle...
...cops to being "grumpy" in the morning. He even offers his media consultant David Axelrod's opinions about the best negative TV ads that could have been used against him in the 2004 Senate campaign. (He once--accidentally, he says--voted against a bill to "protect our children from sex offenders...
...FEELS BAD, DO IT Republican Congressman Chris Shays of Connecticut has been critical of the Bush Administration's Iraq policy. But perhaps overly eager to shore up his conservative bona fides, he recently characterized the conduct of U.S. soldiers at Abu Ghraib as "not torture" but "a sex ring." Of course. With the hoods over the detainees' heads, we just couldn't see them smiling...
Amid allegations that he solicited sex with teenage boys on the Internet—with plenty of lecherous and poorly punctuated e-mails to corroborate—Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) resigned two weeks ago and checked himself into rehab, claiming to suffer from alcoholism...