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...trek through the desert to his new life of adjusting to various American cities is subtly rendered and full of unembellished emotion. Given almost constant exposure to the new and other media, I’m afraid to say I was shamefully desensitized to the accounts of brutal violence that are recounted in this story. Though I cried when Lightning McQueen pushed The King over the finish line in the cartoon movie “Cars,” I barely blinked or cringed while reading about a boy who was kicked to death in Ethiopia fighting over rations.Eggers saves...
...advantage to put her knife-fighting skills on display. Former Vice President Al Gore has privately told friends that his familiarity with the Clintons' hardball campaign style is one of the reasons he would be leery of making a run against Hillary. Geffen told Dowd he expected a brutal primary because the Clinton "machine is going to be very unpleasant and unattractive and effective." But Obama showed, despite his official disdain for pugnacious politics, that he knows how to punch back when...
...alliances with Iran. Beinart observed that Iraq's Shi'ites have never launched a secessionist movement. That isn't surprising, since Saddam Hussein's suppression did not allow for much sectarian expression. Much of the pent-up anger under Saddam's regime is now finding an outlet in brutal daily violence. Iran will not hesitate to support an embattled Shi'ite community with all the means at its disposal-just look at Iran's meddling in Lebanon in support of its proxy Hizballah. Isaac Gerstman Tel Aviv When They Were in L.A. Canadian turned California dreamer Denny Doherty, a tenor...
Then came Sept. 11, and everything changed--for a while. We intervened in Afghanistan and went to war to remove Saddam, a brutal dictator with a history of developing weapons of mass destruction and fostering terrorism in the heart of the Middle East. We then thought we should try to stay to help these nations achieve decent and democratic governments. We are still engaged in this difficult task, and we have made mistakes in its pursuit...
...very effective and often has fewer side effects than medication.” Mireya Nadal-Vicens, a tutor in Mather House and psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital who performs ECT says “Psychiatrists don’t often talk about it because people consider it a brutal treatment, but people don’t understand that the treatments are not painful...If I had a treatment-resistant family member with severe depression, I would not hesitate to recommend ECT.” ECT isn’t confined in the troubled wards of “Girl, Interrupted?...