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...friend and neighbor, the filmmaker Alan Wade, has a provocative explanation for why Titanic struck such a strong and reverberant chord with hundreds of millions of moviegoers, especially women: the hero dies. O.K., that breaks a cardinal rule of movie romance: that the lovers kiss happily at the final fadeout. Most examples of the genre end with that rosy image, in part because their makers are reluctant to bum out their audience. James Cameron must have been tempted to end his film with Leonardo DiCaprio's Jack surviving the ship's sinking and enjoying a long life with Kate Winslet...
...developed by now Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts when, as an aide in the Justice Department, he helped prep Sandra Day O'Connor for her confirmation hearing in 1981, Sotomayor's answers followed a now standard, safe script. Praise Brown v. Board of Ed? Check. Cite Roe v. Wade as "settled law"? Check. Condemn Kormatsu v. the United States? Check...
...over and over again to use as a line of attack against the nominee. Feinstein, for her part, spent much of her 30-minute Q&A with Sotomayor mulling over the court's recent upholding of a ban on partial-birth abortion - in her view bypassing the Roe v. Wade precedent. "I'd also like to ask you your thoughts on how a precedent should be overruled," Feinstein said. "In a rare rebuke of his colleagues, Justice Scalia has sharply criticized Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito for effectively overruling the court's precedents without acknowledging that they were doing...
...There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white. Or a rape.' RICHARD NIXON, reacting to the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, on newly released audiotapes...
...faith the way Islam is, which, with about 6 million practitioners, is the second largest religion in France. Its practitioners are also growing at a faster rate than Catholics. Indeed, the expanding size of Islam and fears about spreading extremism seem to have emboldened pundits and policy-makers to wade in and legislate aspects of Muslim observance and life in ways that they would be wary of doing with Catholics, Protestants or Jews...