Word: wonderingly
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...know. Debbie has to be a shrew, and her marriage with Pete a sad charade, to give Alison one more hurdle to jump: that she'll wonder if living with anyone, let alone Ben, is doomed to failure. But here's a little tip to budding screenwriters. If your refutation to questions of plot irregularity is "Because it's a movie!" - and especially if that card has to be played more than a few times (no friends, no abortion, supporting characters who are caricatures, a website subplot that collapses on closer inspection) - then maybe your script has plausibility problems...
...Moore Zooms In on Health Care Filmmaker Michael Moore romanticizes the government-run health-care system in Canada [May 28]. I wonder if he really understands what a single-payer system would mean for Americans. The government would hold a monopoly over health-care coverage, offering one insurance plan with no alternatives. If the government decided to reduce funding or deny coverage for certain medical technologies or procedures, patients would have to forgo their use or pay for it out of pocket. Under the current system, if people are dissatisfied with their plan, they can simply switch insurance carriers...
...Sept. 11 because the U.S. had been messing around in the Middle East, bombing Iraq" [May 28]. I find it startling that Klein assumed the reader would see this perfectly reasonable notion as weird when it essentially echoes an observation made in The 9/11 Commission Report. I have to wonder where the weirdness really rests. Joshua Glassman, ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA...
Worse yet is the documented effect of the legacy preference policy on alumni children themselves. Georgetown University psychologist Deborah Perlman has observed that many legacy students suffer feelings of “self-doubt” as they wonder whether they were admitted because of their lineage or because of their own accomplishments. Why would alumni parents want to see their children endure these feelings—especially if they almost certainly would have been admitted on merit alone...
...wonder Sneed, director of the New Orleans Office of Emergency Preparedness, shoots you an exasperated look when asked about what the disaster plans are for animals - a look that says the pet issue has become something of a pet peeve...