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...first five minutes of Neil LaBute's Reasons to Be Pretty has more real, squirm-inducing human behavior on display than in all the sitcom Sturm und Drang of God of Carnage. We're plunged into the middle of a screaming fight between Greg and Steph, 20-somethings who have been living together for four years. She is furious over a disparaging comment (repeated to her by a girlfriend) he apparently made about her looks. LaBute's sharp dialogue avoids zingers but captures the way people really act when they are hurt and angry: irrational, inarticulate, unconsciously (and often consciously...
What are your thoughts on the government intervention in the auto industry? Michael Sturm, ASHLAND...
Given the recent Sturm und Drang over the experience question, one might imagine that American Presidents have mostly followed the Johnson/Nixon model, clawing their way from House to Senate to the vice presidency before landing in the Oval Office. In truth, American presidential politics has often been a rookie's game. Some presidential newcomers have hit the ball out of the park, delivering moments of true political greatness. (Think Abraham Lincoln.) Others have offered up inning after inning of rookie mistakes...
...University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa hope they have opened the door to a new way of studying TB and its effects. Megan Murray, an associate professor at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), co-led the project, which has been ongoing for 15 months. Willem Sturm, the Interim Dean of the Nelson Mandela School of Medicine in South Africa, was the project’s other leader. The project focused on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and a strain of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) that had recently killed 45 people in KwaZulu-Natal. The collection...
...with the cop drama Cagney & Lacey (see above), whose duo battled family problems and alcoholism. But the changes were still slow. Women tended to be action stars (Alias) or less complicated heroines (Crossing Jordan), or, more likely, were second leads or co-stars with men (The X-Files, CSI). Sturm und Drang remained men's work. "I've been trying to sell a new Cagney & Lacey to the networks for 15 years," says Miller. "I've developed it five different times, but it's never gotten to the point of being shot as a pilot. A lot of people think...