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...prizewinning contributor, strayed from his role as an Essayist seven weeks ago to write a beguiling piece for us about a chess match between Garry Kasparov and a computer. This week, in his Viewpoint column, Krauthammer, who has a medical degree and is a board-certified psychiatrist, addresses a subject on which he's even more qualified: judicial rulings on the right to die. "Medical ethics is the one area of medicine I still follow," says Krauthammer, who warns against allowing doctors to kill terminally ill patients. "Once these lines are crossed, the other side is the abyss. Judges...
Being a first-time director is a risky game. Even if you have ANJELICA HUSTON's pedigree. TNT contracted Huston to make a version of the cult novel Bastard Out of Carolina, although the suits at the studio knew that the subject matter--a girl who's molested by her stepfather--wasn't exactly family fare. When Huston delivered her film, gritty scenes and all, it dawned on Turner execs (particularly Ted) that they couldn't air the movie without vigorous cuts. "Her vision of the film and what we could air were not the same thing," says...
...Jory, perhaps working with other writers; one actor who starred in a Martin play impishly hinted that the real author is George Stephanopoulos. This year's offering was Jack and Jill, an intimate, panoramic look at modern sexual inequality. The play neatly twists audience sympathies on a volatile subject. So did Martin's 1993 abortion play Keely and Du, which was nominated for a Pulitzer but has not been staged in New York City...
...been listening to these diatribes for nearly a year now. I've kept quiet on the subject, because I was writing news stories on randomization and it would have been a conflict of interest for me to write editorials on it. But in the face of pathetic arguments about Harvard students' doleful "loss of choice," I can't stay silent any longer...
Orren, who did not respond to repeated requests for an interview, did not address the subject of assigning personal errands to support staff in his written statement...