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...help for postpartum depression? Is Cruise really against prescription drugs, or does the idea of a strong woman taking charge of her health frighten him? Cruise's opinions belong in the Dark Ages. He needs to leave health-care options to medical professionals and their patients. Janice Fisher Midlothian, Virginia...
...book is the subject of a forthcoming issue of Christianity and Crisis, a biweekly journal of opinion founded by Niebuhr in February 1941.[*] In one article, William Lee Miller of the University of Virginia notes that few students today seem inspired by Niebuhr's thought, and questions "what his lasting place in the history of American thought, of theology, of political philosophy, will be." But Fox's depiction of Niebuhr in his prime makes him stand tall in comparison with today's political pulpiteers. A reading of the biography, followed by a good dose of Niebuhrian realism, might benefit...
...duchess, née Bessie Wallis Warfield of Baltimore, came from two of those old Maryland and Virginia families that like to trace their ancestry to William the Conqueror. But the Warfields' relative social prominence was not matched by wealth, especially after Wallis' father died when she was only a few months old. She married her first husband, Earl Winfield Spencer Jr., a Navy officer, in 1916. Intensely jealous, he occasionally locked her in her room; they were divorced in 1927 after years of separation. The following year she married Ernest Simpson, a quiet, scholarly, American-born Briton, also recently divorced...
...usually established long in advance, have been altered and expanded almost overnight. The Kirov, for example, had already been scheduled to perform at Vancouver's Expo 86 this month. When the good news arrived from Geneva, the company was able to add Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Wolf Trap in Virginia to its schedule. Unfortunately, the appropriate houses in Manhattan--dance capital of the world--were unavailable on such short notice, and New York dance lovers will have to put on their traveling shoes to see a company that helped define classical ballet. Philadelphians are unfortunate too in that they will...
...Boston handed up a 117-count indictment charging ten defendants with obstruction of justice and more than $1 million in credit-card fraud related to fund raising for LaRouche's 1984 presidential campaign. Six of the indicted LaRouche followers were subsequently arrested in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Virginia...