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Brown poses an immediate challenge in Harvard’s quest for a successful finish. The Bears crushed Harvard 4-0 in the season opener for both teams. The listless Crimson was unable to crack star Bear goaltender Yann Danis, who stopped 30 shots in the whitewash. Danis already holds the Brown record for shutouts despite less than two full years of experience...
...bulletin on the nationwide police-computer network with Duan's particulars. Wuhan's police received the notice, but since they routinely ignored bulletins from other provinces, "they didn't pay much attention," says a source who has seen the Wuhan police reports. "They lost their best chance to crack the case early...
...Pakistani authorities plainly wanted?and delivered?a speedy resolution of the Pearl murder case, partly to please the Bush Administration, which viewed the affair as a test of President Pervez Musharraf's willingness to crack down on homegrown terrorists. But with the Pakistani government's rush to bring Saeed and his three co-defendants to trial and close the case, much has remained a mystery?including the identity of the man who actually wielded the knife that beheaded Pearl. However, TIME has learned that crucial fresh evidence is emerging from two Islamic militants whom Pakistani police and paramilitary rangers have...
...Josephs, he's not alone in having such trouble managing narcissists--and it's not just the narcissists giving therapists such problems. Narcissism is one of 10 conditions under the diagnostic heading of personality disorders (PD), and by most accounts, narcissists are among psychology's toughest nuts to crack. Talk therapy often doesn't touch them; drug therapy may do just as little. Researchers know...
...neuroses? If so, then Wilson's research says, Good luck! For him, the unconscious mind is designed to be inaccessible so that its owners can't fiddle with it while it's operating (not unlike those computer chips in late-model cars whose secrets even Mr. Goodwrench can't crack). Consequently, our notions about what makes us tick are just that, notions, and very often wrong. We might as well be guessing the number of jelly beans in a bottomless...