Suzanne Fields
Suzanne Fields
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The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.
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The old studios that mass-produced dreams are gone with the wind, just like the old downtown theaters that were the temples of the dreams.
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The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture.
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A growing number of young women who have the freedom to decide have decided that career can wait, and the delicious early years of their children's lives can't.
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German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.
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Fast sex, like fast food, is cheap, but it doesn't nourish the body - or the soul.
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Americans always respond when a president calls them, as John F. Kennedy did in his inaugural address, to defend freedom.
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Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.
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Hitler's appeal to greed and sloth, to increase German prosperity without requiring Germans to work for it, led into the Holocaust because confiscating Jewish property seemed to make sense to the greedy.
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It's not very hip to consider the plight of single women who yearn for something so old-fashioned as men,.
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Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it.
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At the moment, the biggest candy-and-popcorn issue for Washington is piracy. Film pirates, knocking off illegal copies of new movies, cost the industry over $3 billion a year.
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Fame may last for only 15 minutes, in Andy Warhol's famous calculation, but it arrives quickly and requires instant attention, lest it vanish before it can be fully exploited.
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I visit Berlin occasionally to visit family, and the economic problems are quickly evident even to the casual visitor.