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Dec. 3, 2005

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Who's Carl This Time?

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CARL: "ABC might have been right" to decide Live with Regis and Kelly was more important."

That was pundit Roger Simon, commenting that the president's big speech this week wasn't, in the end, all that big. A speech about what?

Answer 1

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CARL: "For example, some curiosity during adolescence, or accidental circumstances in a state of drunkenness, or particular circumstances, like someone who was in prison for many years."

Those, according to the Cardinal in charge of the Vatican's Congregation for Catholic Teaching, are the only situations in which it's okay for a priest, or seminarian, to be what?

Answer 2

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Carl: "At the end of each take, the helicopter would circle round. The downdraft nailed me flat onto the grass, and a couple of times I bit the dust. At first it was funny, but after several times I began to get very angry."

Ms. Andrews was talking about her most famous scene from a movie; that movie came out 40 years ago this Christmas. What movie?

Answer 3