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One of James' trademark innocents, Catherine is acted upon by three titanic forces: her father, Dr. Sloper (Albert Finney), whose express desire to protect a daughter he considers ugly and witless takes the form of ruthless repression; her aunt, (Maggie Smith), who wishes to weave out of her niece's life a breathlessly melodramatic romance; and Morris Townsend (Ben Chaplin), the playboy who has squandered a modest inheritance and now seeks salvation in the form of this unloved, unlovely, and affluent young woman.
Yes, managed care is a good way to squeeze some fat out of the system, but the rising costs are simply a reflection of America's cultural desire for higher standards of quality of life, and the astonishing technologies that are making it possible.
Independent commercial IRBs depend on pleasing corporate customers for their continued existence, and there is an unstated expectation that they will both be fast and produce rulings consistent with corporate expectations (which in most cases include a desire to do the research ethically).
Wolf's fixation on desire isn't so much an idea as a good intention, an attempt to make feminism feel less like a complaint--to give women equal rights not just to a job but to ecstasy.
He had no desire to see this happen again.