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...mental-health bill look even weaker in the House than in the Senate, where Domenici chairs the influential budget committee. House majority whip Tom DeLay of Texas, who has close ties to business groups, was 1 of just 17 members of the House to vote against a very weak 1996 version of the Domenici-Wellstone proposal; he also seems to have a deep suspicion of psychology in general. Just last month, he accused the American Psychological Association of trying to "normalize pedophilia" after the association published a study suggesting that not all childhood victims of sexual abuse necessarily suffer mental...
...general. "Louisiana must be respected by all her children," he wrote to his friend Henri Rouart in Paris, "and I am almost one of them." Alas, it's Degas being ironic. The sentences before make this clear: speaking of New Orleans women, he wrote that "their heads are as weak as mine, which a deux would prove a strange guarantee for a new home...
...this reflects a backlash against the earnestly modern Catholic culture that grew out of Vatican II, "whose identity seems rather weak and unclear to the MTV generation," says the Rev. Michael Baxter, a theology professor at Notre Dame University. The traditional Mass has filled a need for more transcendence, through Catholicism that again reaches the soul via the senses...
...thought her daughter was simply melancholy over her parents' split and took her to see a counselor. That seemed to help for a while. Then for about eight months, when Megan was 10, she cried constantly and wouldn't go to school. She lost her appetite and got so weak that at one point she couldn't get out of bed. When a doctor recommended Paxil in conjunction with therapy, Linda recoiled. "I did not want to put my baby on an antidepressant," she says. Then she relented because, she says, "Megan wasn't living her childhood." Linda noticed changes...
...Double Platinum, fans of the good-girl Brandy will be glad to note that her character does not rob any banks or try to whack her mother. But her acting does show off some unexpected shadings. As a singer, Brandy's voice is slight, too weak-kneed to carry heavy burdens of emotion. On the small screen, however, she has found her medium: she has an easy way about her that invites us into her character's emotions. As the star of 1997's highly rated ABC-TV movie Cinderella, she brought a 'round-the-way elegance to the proceedings...