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...manages to repeat at least three times in every speech he gives these days--tells you all you need to know about how different this presidential campaign will be from his last one. McCain '08 will be a bigger, more conventional operation--a tank, not a slingshot. The prevailing wisdom about McCain used to be that his bipartisan appeal would make him a sure bet in a presidential race--if only he could get past the Republican primary. But as more and more of the party establishment climb aboard a campaign that McCain has not yet even formally launched...
Amanda suffers from acute culture shock before Graham (a smoldering and sensitive Jude Law) takes her frolicking in the English countryside. Iris does water aerobics with an old Hollywood screenwriter, Arthur Abbott (veteran actor Eli Wallach, “Mystic River”), whose creaky wisdom leads her to Miles (Jack Black, playing against type), a cultured score-composer who pens her a melody using “only the good notes...
...issue was not an immediate priority - was still a bit naive to Roman customs. But it is evidence of a more open intellectual climate under Benedict. And so with Ratzinger, who was perhaps the best-known modern Cardinal to become Pope, there is another bit of well-worn Roman wisdom to ponder: every papacy - like creation itself - is a work in progress...
...autism in his 2-year-old son Mark with the help of a college textbook. The personal discovery led to a professional crusade. "This was war," he later wrote. In 1964, he published Infantile Autism, a landmark book that argued autism had biochemical roots and upended the then conventional wisdom that it was a child's response to "refrigerator mothers" who didn't show adequate affection. An adviser to the makers of Rain Man--his son was a model for Dustin Hoffman's Oscar-winning 1988 turn as an autistic savant--Rimland also controversially claimed metals like mercury could trigger...
...DIED. Bernard Rimland, 78, psychologist who pioneered modern autism research and advocacy; in El Cajon, California. Infantile Autism, Rimland's landmark 1964 book, argued autism had biochemical roots and upended the then-conventional wisdom that it was a child's response to inadequate parental affection. An adviser on 1998's Rain Man-his son was a model for Dustin Hoffman's Oscar-winning turn as an autistic savant-Rimland also controversially claimed food allergies and some metals could trigger autism, and vitamins could help treat...