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Rife with moral didacticism and lapses in logic (how can the black-and-white mobs get so angry yet not burst into color?)
But Bush "so far does not seem to have the stomach for what is really required on Russia: an American apology (of the sort Clinton so loves to hand out for the long-dead practice of American slavery, for genocide in Rwanda, and for other US moral lapses) and a rebuilding, from the ground up, of this key strategic relationship."
And insurance companies are worried that the rules would make them responsible for privacy lapses by companies working together.
Although many note that this is "a junior-league One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest " (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ) and that the film lapses into trite battles between patients and hospital staff, the film stays mainly on target, at its best when displaying its "meticulous, true-to-life portrait of a time (the late 1960's) and place (the hothouse world of upper-middle-class Boston suburbia)" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). (Click here to visit the official site.)
I still had that list and now, rather than just sitting there like a bum on a log, I compared Jane's words with my own burgeoning record of unstrung and unlamented lapses, many, still to be entered in my trustee notebook.