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...jolt. It is also the first flash of his occasional viciousness, here darkly humorous, often plain nasty. According to Read, he often treated his wife, Merula, with disdain, putting her down in public and insisting she give up her own acting career. When this led to her breakdown, he left her alone in a suite at the Ritz Hotel to get through it. His relationship with his son, Matthew, was awkward and could also be cruel - he once held a hand up for an entire meal to block out the face of Matthew's new girlfriend. What really fascinates Read...
...statistics also reveal a changing dynamic in the breakdown of sexual assaults by how they are reported...
...have success, but they have direction. I don't know what I want to do, and I'm so pathetically lost that I just want to sit on this curb. I feel fine as long as I stay right here." Nancy said, "I think you're having a breakdown," and I replied, "Well, then we're on breakdown corner...
Former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright noted in the latest issue of Foreign Policy magazine that “U.N. peacekeeping has maintained order in such diverse places as Namibia, El Salvador, Cambodia, eastern Slavonia, Mozambique, and Cyprus.” In contrast, the breakdown of security in Iraq and Afghanistan underscores the Bush administration’s inability to secure stability in post-conflict states and highlights the need for a change of course in Iraq...
While it was heartening to see the developing nations display such solidarity in Cancun, the breakdown of the trade talks means that northern subsidies will not disappear anytime soon. Worse, the rich nations will likely turn their energies to negotiating bilateral and regional trade agreements in order to circumvent the WTO altogether. These smaller scale trade deals would handicap the developing countries, picking apart the united front which they posed in Cancun. To many advocates of developing nations, the WTO suddenly doesn’t look quite...