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Regarding Henry, Mike Nichols' effective, infuriating new weepie, works a cunning variation on the born-again theme. It eliminates the middleman, Death, by subjecting Henry Turner (Harrison Ford) to a gunshot wound that erases his memory. Bang!, you're a new man. The old one needed some revision. That Henry was a slick Manhattan lawyer who misused his gifts to ruin innocent men and save venal corporations. Instructed by his chic wife (Annette Bening) to apologize to their 11-year-old daughter (Mikki Allen), Henry instead scolds the dear girl in Latin. The guy barely deserves to live, until...
...such deaths rose to more than 450 per year in Romania as the backalley business took hold. Infant mortality rates jumped as well, over the short term as well as long term, and fetal death rates rose dramatically too. What started out as a drive to save babies wound up killing more than before...
...husbands, 26 other states hover in a gray zone: without gross brutality, the husband has the benefit of the doubt. If prosecutors decide they have enough for a case, ( however, they usually win; between 1978 and 1985, only 118 cases of spousal rape went to trial, but 104 wound up with a conviction...
Ironically, Charlotte and New Jersey wound up with the first two picks after finishing with identical 26-56 records. A coin flip before the lottery determined that the Hornets would get seven balls in the lottery bin and the Nets eight...
...whisking a baby out of a troubled mother's arms does not ensure an end to the child's travails. Babies who become wards of the state have often wound up being boarded in hospitals for months, tended by ever-changing shifts of nurses. Such institutional care not only leads to emotional troubles down the road but can also actually cause "failure to thrive," a medical term for a condition in which infants do not gain enough weight and fail to develop normally. It has been loosely translated as a loss of interest in life. Older children may be shuttled...