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...even when the real people are celebrities. When the L.A. house he is renting as a location for a new interview show turns out to be unfurnished, Brüno recruits some Mexican laborers to get down on all fours as human benches. What kind of person would actually sit on other people? Now we know: Paula Abdul, warily, and LaToya Jackson, with gusto. Jackson's scene was cut from the film after Michael's death, so unless it's restored on the DVD, you won't get to see that what really offends her about the situation...
...even worse, treated as invisible. . . . Esther’s view was that a wise woman on the bench can influence and may even change the opinion of a wise man--and vice versa.” Another distinguished female jurist, the Honorable Patricia M. Wald, the first woman to sit on the bench of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (later serving as Chief Judge), also recognized in Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: One Woman Judge’s Journey to the Bench and Beyond that “[a] judge...
...corn, crude oil, coal and wheat are major state exports. The boom helped push energy outfit MDU Resources onto the Fortune 500 (the first North Dakota firm to make the list) and the state budget to a $1.2 billion surplus. State workers around the country are being told to sit at home without pay to trim costs; in North Dakota they're getting 5% raises...
...person who works on a diagnostic team studying children with various issues, I was surprised by your lumping ADHD into a severe-mental-illness category. First, ADHD, most often considered a disorder, can be apparent as early as 4 or 5, as soon as a child is required to sit still in a formal setting. It can last into old age. The prevention you cite is simplistic at best: you don't prevent ADHD; you manage it. Carol Freedman, MATAWAN...
...doesn't quite live up to the NYAFF blurb: "As big, meaty and satisfying as a flame-roasted leg of wild boar, Warlords is the kind of movie you tear into with relish, wiping its bloody juices off your chin with the back of your hand as you sit on a throne made of the bones of your enemies...