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...privately that at least three are needed. Among the troops, frustration is growing: many officers say that the U.S. is too lenient in its dealings with the enemy, allowing too many captured insurgents to go free, and that soldiers can do little more than act as international police. Others claim that superiors are overlooking their reports about conditions on the ground. If the U.S. and its Iraqi allies are making progress in eroding the appeal of the resistance, the men in Ramadi don't see it. Says an American officer: "This s___ ain't going anywhere...
...atonement. Among the mourner-scrubwomen are two sisters, Raimunda (Penélope Cruz) and Soledad (Lola Dueñas), tending the grave of their mother Irene (Carmen Maura), dead these four years. Visiting Irene's older, failing sister Aunt Paula (Chus Lampreave), they hear the daft woman's claim that she has been cared for by Irene's ghost. This is dismissed as sweet dementia, until Sole, returning to Madrid, opens the trunk of her car and finds Irene, the corporeal ghost, scrunched up inside. Mom expects to "live" with her daughter; and Sole, ever dutiful, obliges, as long...
This second dimension isn’t so bad on its own; on the whole, political advocacy and grassroots organizing should be lauded. The problems arise if you claim objectivity while pushing a platform. And that’s what worries me about the past week: not the politics or the pettiness, but the potential of the new media to motivate people to act before they’ve had a chance to consider if what’s being sold to them is in their interest—or really in someone else?...
This isn’t the first ostensibly wacky claim Kimata has made—in a 2001 study, Kimata claimed to have found that laughter also alleviates allergic reactions. Allergy patients who were told to watch the Charlie Chaplin flick “Modern Times” saw a decrease in the size of skin welts while those who watched a video on weather experienced no change...
Perhaps the most hurtful claim that the writer levels, though, is that of insincerity. There are literally millions of volunteers like us that form the heart of ACS, all of whom have been touched by cancer in one way or another. Ask any one of the 1,100 students that gathered a couple weeks ago for the Relay for Life at Gordon Track to raise over $150,000. They will tell you their own stories about how they were motivated by the tragic illnesses of their parents, siblings, and friends...