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...commensurate with the horrors seen and the ones to come? Even before the war, the Cubism of Picasso and Braque had been of little interest to him. But by 1914 Beckmann was a medical orderly in the trenches of Flanders. The Belgian front, where he suffered a severe nervous breakdown, would show him fractured form with a vengeance. Especially after the raw meat and blasted earth of the trenches, why care how you broke up goblets and cafe tables? Similarly, the Expressionist and Symbolist art of the prewar era, with its yearning toward transcendence, seemed now like an evasion...
...Leone has indicted Taylor for allegedly financing and training that country's murderous rebel group, the Revolutionary United Front). Jesus. With what? I came to power. I signed up with a budget of nothing. It grew to about $70 million. How does one fight an internal civil war, total breakdown of infrastructure in the country, no money, and then someone says that Taylor trained and armed and financed... Come on. Let's be serious...
...work. But the Defense Secretary may also be a little too inclined to blame the problem exclusively on die-hard Baathists and criminals. (It is certainly difficult to imagine what motive criminals would have for attacking U.S. forces, since they have been among the greatest beneficiaries of the breakdown in security that followed Saddam's collapse, and they presumably have far more lucrative and less dangerous options open to them right now than taking potshots at the world's most powerful army.) But focusing primarily on criminals and former Saddamists may lead the U.S. to underestimate the nature...
...sense?which I've had in only a few places in the world?of entering not so much a physical space as a force field, a place where time has stood its ground." But Leptis is only a brief sojourn on his inexorable descent, which culminates in a total breakdown in a Detroit diner...
Health care in America is suffering a total nervous breakdown, but it isn't just because doctors are striking and maternity wards are closing. Health-care premiums are rising at unsustainable rates. Some economists estimate that unnecessary tests and procedures, ordered by doctors to build a record just in case there is a lawsuit, cost more than $100 billion a year--enough to provide health insurance for the 40 million Americans who have no coverage. Modern medical technology is bringing us miracle cures, yet the absence of backup systems to catch human errors is causing thousands of deaths each year...