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...deeper psychiatric struggles, and the audience is left perplexed as to some of the character’s decisions and motives. Co-stars Jackson and Garcia play their parts well, but are crippled by the poor dialogue of screenwriter Sarah Thorp, whose script traps the characters in awkward, clichéd language. Even the redemptive Kaufman (The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Right Stuff) can’t allow the film to recover from its overused dialogue...
Most Harvard students assume that everyone around them has been a freshman. There are certain rites of passage that are taken for granted—making “insta-friends,” enduring awkward conversations at the Ice Cream Bash and suffering through expos...
...tools” are just basic information about the core, concentrations and other Harvard peculiarities. But there’s one golden rule the transfers learn: “play the transfer card.” In other words, use their newly-minted status to get out of awkward situations—and to generate conversation...
...says are an important aid to treatment when the anxiety or depression is severe. She dismisses any suggestion that treating childhood anxiety - even with cognitive behavior therapy alone - is an example of medicalizing normal human variation. Some kids are always going to be scared of the dark or socially awkward, and friends doesn't expect to change that. The beauty of presenting the program in schools, Barrett argues, is that it keeps non-anxious kids non-anxious, leads the somewhat anxious toward normality, and helps teachers to identify those whose anxiety may need one-on-one clinical attention. This last...
...awkward moment in a suddenly wobbly presidency. Obviously, Iraq was a war of choice. CIA Director George Tenet recently said he never believed there was an "imminent" threat. It is hard to find anyone outside the Vice President's circle of friends who still insists that an immediate, unilateral invasion was necessary. The real question for this election year is, Was going to war in Iraq the right choice in the larger struggle against radical Islam? Saddam Hussein is in jail. There may have been ancillary benefits from the American show of force: Libya has given up its nuclear ambitions...