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...course, his intended readership, but that means that the local color Chettri paints with can sometimes be disorienting, if not frustratingly inaccessible, for a foreign reader. Certain domestic images are familiarly rustic - there are granaries and millstones, and whitewashed homes with butter churns, milk pails, earthen hearths and chaff-filled pillows. But other features, particularly indigenous flora, are harder to visualize, even with translator Michael J. Hutt's detailed endnotes. Bhorla, angeri leaves, chilaune trees - without an illustrated field guide, a foreign reader is simply lost...
...only sex with patients but "any behavior which might be reasonably interpreted by a patient as demeaning or as a sexual advance." Psychiatry will never rid itself entirely of practitioners who use talking therapy to satisfy voyeuristic urges, but it doesn't want to lose the wheat with the chaff. Indeed, the metaphorical couch is gaining favor over pills as the main tool of treatment for many conditions, with training institutions recently increasing their emphasis on psychotherapy. "We really want to get the balance right," says Charles Le Feuvre, chair of the r.a.n.z.c.p.'s Psychotherapy Section, "and it may indeed...
...films eligible for nomination. After all, we see movies for a living; they just make them. They need an early line, a cheat sheet, voices of presumed expertise steering them toward certain films and, just as important, away from lots of others. Critics, at award time, are the wheat-chaff separators...
...Shosha and Mount Hiei, all provide lodgings (Mount Koya alone has more than 50 shukubo), as do the hillside temples surrounding the ancient capitals of Kyoto and Nara, where well-trodden pilgrim trails make finding shukubo relatively easy. Levels of comfort vary. In many shukubo, a thin futon, a chaff-filled pillow and nothing but paper doors between you and the next snoring pilgrim are the norm. But others can be surprisingly refined, with delicate flower arrangements, swirling calligraphy on the walls and views of carp ponds. Bathrooms and toilet facilities are typically communal. So are morning prayers. To rise...
...years away from journalism at the National Constitution Center. "I started consuming news like a regular person. It's been a good lesson. I think what Time can do in this age of media glut is to be the guide, to help people separate the wheat from the chaff, to give them the information they need to know." He takes over officially on June...