If you’ve gone to the movies recently, you may have felt a strangely familiar feeling: You’ve seen this movie before. Not this exact movie, but some of these exact story beats: the hero dressed down by his mentor in the first 15 minutes (Star Trek Into Darkness, Battleship); the villain who gets caught on purpose (The Dark Knight, The Avengers, Skyfall, Star Trek Into Darkness); the moment of hopelessness and disarray a half-hour before the movie ends (Olympus Has Fallen, Oblivion, 21 Jump Street, Fast & Furious 6)
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Inside the New Medical Privacy Law
Who hasn’t experienced that sinking feeling during a visit to the pharmacy , or the face-reddening trauma of a teenage trip to the dermatologist ? If a new law is successful, those excruciating moments are a thing of the past
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An uneasy, familiar feeling came over me when I watched last week’s premiere of Top Chef Masters.
The Brief, Bizarre Start of Berlusconi’s Sex Trial
The television vans had lined up early Wednesday morning. Telephone cables had been laid.