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...title character (starting with A Child Called Noah; 1972), I would often be asked what it was like having an autistic brother. I never figured out how to respond. The answer I always gave--that I had never known any other life or any other brother--seemed cryptic and somehow unsatisfactory...
...maybe because I entered motherhood through the special-needs world, I somehow feel more a part of it than I do the "normal" one. The challenges in this world are greater, but the accomplishments--those firsts--are that much sweeter...
...Catholic struggling to keep the faith through all this, I find myself asking: Why? Why can these men not get the enormity of what has happened? The best I can come up with is that they are well-intentioned men who somehow cannot see that what they have enabled is systematic child rape. They resist deep change by claiming that celibacy isn't the issue. But the hierarchy's cover-up of this evil surely has something to do with celibacy. Today's church leaders see sex primarily as an act, fraught with moral danger, not as a relationship, imbued...
...emphasizing angst over energy, the movie is much like its hero--not the dashing crime fighter in a red-and-black bodysuit but the introspective nerd who both endears and exasperates. Perhaps that's artistically appropriate, for Spider-Man is about the awkward process of becoming, of somehow surviving teen turmoil to turn into, as Peter's saintly Uncle Ben (Cliff Robertson) tells him, "the man you're going to be for the rest of your life." Why shouldn't there be growing pains in the Spider-Man movie? Just as Peter's transformation is a process of trial...
...cool midnight air. Zaw Win Htut's fans came by the thousands today to see him perform, chanting his name for hours before he took the stage. But they've left, and his band mates and family have retired to their rooms. He looks almost peaceful now, smaller somehow than when he was in front of the crowd. It's quiet, something the 38-year-old could get used to. "I'm tired of being famous," he says, his voice raspy from rough...