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...birth her child had weighed 9 lbs., 6 oz. Babies often shed a few ounces in the hours after birth, but not 17% of their body weight. Hospital chief of staff Dr. Thomas Massaro admits the hospital can't explain why the large discrepancy went unnoticed. "We don't understand that," he says, though he is virtually positive there was no accidental switch in this case. "We have very good documentation that the band was properly put on," he says. "I have checked, a dozen other doctors have checked, a dozen nurses." He notes that removing four ID bracelets from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Do They Belong? | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

...impact of his work is felt in all the right places. A story of learning how to live and interact when you realize that you'll never be handed any instruction manual, Peretz endows his characters with the ability to learn and his audience with the ability to understand. This is a movie that really shouldn't be missed--even if the theater isn't air conditioned and you're feeling hotter than the sugar factory workers on a muggy bayou...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alum Sets First Film in Steamy, Sensual Bayou | 8/14/1998 | See Source »

...that she is the first person with whom he has ever slept. Sissel, by contrast, is considerably sharp-witted--acutely aware of emotional pain and other substantial problems resulting from the experience of her parents separation. Yet toward the end of the film, it is Joey who begins to understand the folly of his misguided enthusiasm and lack of direction while at the same time Sissel seems to regress even further away from the mature relationship she once comprehended on a much higher level than her lover. Simply put, the character development is a study in contrast that provides...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alum Sets First Film in Steamy, Sensual Bayou | 8/14/1998 | See Source »

...young Joey, but probably more so because of Peretz's and Ryan's adaptation of the story than anything else. Great though the character may be presented, Ribisi plays him as more ignorant than innocent, a subtle distinction that in the end postpones the viewers' ability to understand his plight until later on in the movie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alum Sets First Film in Steamy, Sensual Bayou | 8/14/1998 | See Source »

...under this definition, oral sex performed on him by Lewinsky means that he did not have "sexual relations" with her even though she did with him. Since perjury requires a conscious lie, McAllister says there is enough ambiguity there "to create a colorable argument that Clinton did not completely understand what he was answering, and thus did not commit perjury." Which may be enough to get him off the legal hook. But will the American public accept that the President had only this definition in mind when he looked them in the eye and said he did not have sexual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Testimony Trial Balloon | 8/14/1998 | See Source »

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