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...America's Martin wants to talk precisely in religious terms. "Everything she's experiencing," he says, "is what average believers experience in their spiritual lives writ large. I have known scores of people who have felt abandoned by God and had doubts about God's existence. And this book expresses that in such a stunning way but shows her full of complete trust at the same time." He takes a breath. "Who would have thought that the person who was considered the most faithful woman in the world struggled like that with her faith?" he asks. "And who would have...
This was to be the summer of threequels, with franchises like Pirates, Spider-Man 3 and Shrek the Third stoking the audience's addiction to familiar stories writ large. But those films came out in May. Then what? "The summer began under a cloud of tentpoles," says Marc Shmuger, chairman of Universal Pictures, which has bet heavily on comedies, including Knocked Up and Evan Almighty. "We felt there would be demand for an entertaining alternative. And the success of Knocked Up shows how large the thirst for a great, funny movie really is. I think by September we will...
...Chanson Française spectrum, that openly defined yet traditional Gallic brand of dramatic songcraft made famous by singers like Charles Aznavour and Edith Piaf decades ago. Is a band's m.o. to perform "chanson" with an ironic rock twist? Is that chanteuse doing classic chanson writ modern? It seems that French musicians can't just simply be musicians. But Keren Ann can, and she's not even French...
...professors focused their criticisms on the act’s stipulation that no court has the “jurisdiction to hear or consider an application for a writ of habeas corpus filed by or on behalf of an alien detained by the United States...
...professors wrote that allowing such a statute “would constitute a permanent abrogation of the writ,” and that the Bush administration’s “interpretation would be vastly threatening to the liberty of more than 20 million noncitizens residing in the United States...