Word: sinning
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Some artists sing the song, and some let the song sing them. For Aretha Franklin, the song has always been incidental - a cheap vehicle for her amazing voice. Sinéad O'Connor, who possesses a completely different but equally distinctive talent, reveals herself in the lyrics she performs. Now both have terrific new CDs that showcase their strengths. With just one song, Respect, Franklin introduced feminism to popular music, but she has also sung about lesser things convincingly - like riding on a freeway of love in a pink Cadillac and being drawn through destiny to duet partner George Michael...
...wall." In which case, Davis' best hope is to refocus Californians on the first question on the ballot: whether it's right to spend more than $60 million to remove a Governor they elected less than a year ago who has not committed any malfeasance and whose major sin was hiding from them the seriousness of the problems ahead when he was running for re-election. On Monday, when Davis found himself in Chicago at an AFL-CIO convention with Bill Clinton, he privately sought the counsel of the master political survivor. As they talked for more than an hour...
...Singapore is not an entirely liberated city?yet. The city's gays?mostly diligent, discreet workers and students?were relieved by Goh's recent announcement and by the generally supportive readers' letters published in the Straits Times (even if there were some hardened homosexuality-is-a-sin exceptions). But the token coming-out story that the newspaper also printed revealed just how many gays were still in closets, even if they do risk a visit to the clubs on weekends. It is also notable that the new gay theater piece, Existence, to be presented next month by the Fun Stage...
...Kudos to Charles Krauthammer for supporting the decisions of the Bijani twins and their doctors. But shame on him for getting stuck in the mire of religious values and cultural biases in regard to assisted suicide. If it wasn't a sin for the Bijani sisters to look death in the face and accept its reality, why is it a sin for others? Although I believe Krauthammer is right in arguing that trying to separate the Bijani twins was not assisting suicide, I take a strong stand against his implying that assisted suicide is immoral for anyone else who suffers...
...abused by it. Inside the sharp social commentary is an appealing love story between an African doctor (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and a Turkish maid (Amelie's Audrey Tautou). And as the hotel's night manager--the film's designated devil--Sergi Lopez is the most genial of miscreants. Committing each sin with a smile, he assures that the lives of his staff will remain an agony until ... "Until the world improves," the doctor's friend says...