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...maintained for weeks that there were no SARS victims in the country, the number of suspected cases leapt from zero to 59 in just a few days. Critics quickly assailed Kuala Lumpur for the same obfuscatory practices used in China that may have contributed to the disease's silent spread. The Malaysian government flatly denied a cover-up, and top health officials held daily briefings for reporters, leading even its harshest critics to acknowledge that the government appeared to have learned from past episodes of stonewalling during disease outbreaks. In faraway Washington, Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson...
...PIANIST. Adrien Brody’s magnetic, largely silent performance in Roman Polanski’s Holocaust drama almost compensates for The Pianist’s inconsistent tone and distasteful political sensibilities. Brody’s Wladek Szpilman, who could hardly have picked a worse time and place to be Jewish, transforms from cocky concert pianist to starving phantom hunted by Nazis after escaping death in the bombed-out ghetto. The film soars briefly as it reflects on the redemptive power of music and the Szpilman’s commitment to survival; it stumbles badly in its misleading depiction...
...Because the rowing world is so small, we all have friends on [Northeastern’s team],” McDaniel said. “I think it’s been especially silent because of what happened...
Carson spent publication day in her home in Silver Spring, Md., preparing for speeches and a book tour, according to biographer Linda Lear. In a letter to a friend, Carson called Silent Spring "something I believed in so deeply that there was no other course; nothing that ever happened made me even consider turning back." When the book appeared, industry critics assailed "the hysterical woman," but it became an instant best seller with lasting impact. It spurred the banning of DDT in the U.S., the passage of major environmental laws and eventually a global treaty to phase out 12 pesticides...
...doubters include his silent, perpetually angry mother, whom he volubly loathes (she abandoned him as a child); his stepgrandmother, who raised him when he was not in foster care; a sister, the film's most sympathetic figure; and a girlfriend with a serious speech impediment who is standing by her man. James becomes a figure in his own film, guilt ridden about his earlier abandonment of Stevie but still the only person present capable of offering him sensible, always unheeded, counsel as Stevie's case wends toward sentencing...