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...League). "Could readily promote anti-Semitism" (Sister Mary C. Boys of New York City's Union Theological Seminary). Some critics predicted toxic damage: "Its real tinder-box effect could be abroad," wrote Frank Rich in the New York Times, "where anti-Semitism has metastasized since 9/11." In the usually sober pages of the New Republic, Paula Fredriksen, the Aurelio Professor of Scripture at Boston University, warned, "When violence breaks out, Mel Gibson will have a much higher authority than professors and bishops to answer to." That's when...
...insist the only reason her theories had not been verified was a reluctance in Washington to accept the truth. Just as well that the commission had the good sense to call on the likes of Iraq expert Judith Yaphe and al-Qaeda expert Rohan Guranatra to present a more sober view...
...cost more for the company to issue, so companies won't hand out as many. In essence, employees will be giving up a risky bet on a lot of money in exchange for a safer bet on somewhat less money. It is an appropriate trade-off for a more sober financial...
Charlie's Angels Full Throttle offers a much more primitive form of female empowerment: pretty women kicking butt. It requires three to deliver what Witherspoon gives us in one perky package. Cameron Diaz does ditsy perpetual adolescence; Lucy Liu plays a sober, focused grownup; and Drew Barrymore, as befits one of the film's producers, has a backstory: once she was lost to addiction and male exploitation; now she's found both inner strength and martial artistry. All right, all right, you can't quite imagine Elle Woods ever being addicted to anything but high-end shopping...
...core of the album is slow and moody. Beyonce's voice is wonderfully emotive, yet songs like Me, Myself and I and Yes lack the youthful energy that makes her such an obvious star force. It's as if she mistook seriousness for maturity, particularly on her sober cover of The Closer I Get to You with Luther Vandross. The florid arrangement and middle-aged duet partner make her sound like a young fogy...