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The prevailing complaint against Wolf is that she's a permissive, condom-loving liberal who pushes sex on kids.
Some critics praise the film for featuring a hard-working family instead of Hollywood's usual black "pimps and junkies" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Others say it just replaces a negative stereotype with a schmaltzy one: "[I]t pushes emotional buttons with all the subtlety of a poke in the baby-back ribs" (Richard Corliss, Time ). (Photos and the like are available here.)
In the next frame (not shown), the attendant allegedly pushes away Clinton's hand.
By increasing the rate at which deleterious mutations appear, APOBEC3G pushes viruses over this edge, causing a form of ‘lethal mutagenesis’ that results in their destruction; the rate of mutation becomes so high that no genome can reproduce itself faithfully, and the population crashes.
Similarly, the LAT front-pager on Iraq policy, by the estimable Robin Wright, pushes down to the 14th paragraph the claim that Washington is now "almost irrevocably involved" until the objective of toppling Saddam is achieved.