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Some churches are doing more to shepherd gay kids, in part because studies have shown that suicide rates among young gays may be quadruple those of heterosexual teens. In September, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops urged parents of gay children to demonstrate love for their sons and daughters and to recognize that "generally, homosexual orientation is experienced as a given, not as something freely chosen." The bishops made clear, however, that they believe homosexual sex is wrong. There is, of course, some evidence that homosexuality is something of a fad among young people. On a few college campuses...
...fired a year ago, after the studio suffered through more than five money-losing years that bottomed out with Sony Corp. taking a $3.2 billion write-off--essentially admitting its investment had been worthless. Despite having ably handled the flock of pictures he inherited, Calley has yet to shepherd a film of his own devising from script to screen...
Working with a recent English translation by Michael Dewell and Carmen Zapata, Baxindine has designed a languid, hauntingly lovely set of melodies to which several of the characters sing their poetry--Yerma's dream-monologues, a shepherd song by Victor, a complex six-part song by the village washerwomen--as well as incidental music. Exquisitely performed by Baxindine on piano and Marianne McPherson '01 on flute (filling in for regular Lori Sonderegger), the music fills the space of Old Library and combines with the delicate shifting of the light and the dreamlike lyricism of the poetry to create an atmosphere...
...users and overseers, one is not surprised to find that these four chapters hold the most measured, fact-filled arguments of the entire book. Dyson includes the names of regulatory agencies already active in private households and, to a lesser extent, in the public arena. Names like CYBERsitter, Net Shepherd, and TRUSTe provide evidence of the viability of the Internet as a secure environment for children and adults alike. Unfortunately, the main bias of Release 2.0 reveals itself in these chapters. Dyson, who previously urged the reader to remember when "[you had] just turned thirteen" and "you tried...
DIED. AUDRA LINDLEY, 79, veteran actress best known as sex-starved, muumuu-clad landlady Helen Roper on the sitcom Three's Company; of complications from leukemia; in Los Angeles. A daughter of actors, Lindley played Broadway, big-screen and television roles, most recently as Cybill Shepherd's mother on Cybill...