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Perhaps it's a cold truth, but sometimes death burnishes an author's reputation. It was only after she committed suicide that Sylvia Plath's most affecting, well-known works came out, Ariel, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Collected Poems. John Kennedy Toole's Southern gothic tragicomedy A Confederacy of Dunces was unpublished and gathering dust until Toole's mother put it in the hands of Walker Percy years after her son's suicide. The 2008 publication in English of Stieg Larsson's critically acclaimed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo came four years after he passed...
...rather than playing to the expectations of producers or viewers, says Fleiss, Mesnick dared to reveal his true emotions and to acknowledge the uncomfortable truth that love is not always a programmable enterprise. "More than any other bachelor in history, he was committed to love and to truly following his heart, even though he knew he was going to have to go through hell to do it," Fleiss says. "It's really a romantic notion, that he sacrificed chunks of his popularity to at least try to be with the woman he loved...
...There's Truth in Simulation Much praise is given to our documentary Burma VJ by your correspondent Andrew Marshall [Feb. 9]. However, Marshall also has strong reservations about the use of re-enactment as a narrative tool. Aesthetically, such methods can always be debated, but I cannot follow the article's suggestion that the film seeks to manipulate its audience by pretending to be a montage of purely authentic material while, according to Marshall, it is in fact a "docudrama." It is correct that there are reconstructions in the film. But we certainly have made no secret about...
...Obama’s measures separate Bush’s ethical ideology from the truth of stem cell research. The ethical arguments levied against stem cells are unconvincing. The use of stem cells is not a destruction of human life. The embryos from which these cells are cultivated are merely a collection of cells—with no moral status as persons—and would otherwise be discarded. Yet, the use of this collection of cells could have life-saving implications. The restrictive policies of the previous administration allowed religious beliefs to hinder scientific advancement. Moreover...
...taken sporting glory to get the rest of France to pay attention. "We're thrilled that this young man who has worked so hard to integrate and succeed no longer risks the expulsion he and all illegals face once they turn18," Tusa says. "But the truth is, many illegals are also fighters trying to get through each day. And no one stands to applaud them...