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From the minute that they meet, the personalities of the two protagonists complement each other. Initially, Adam has a hard time sharing his territory with a "long-haired creature," and finds her proximity to him disconcerting. In time, each learns to depend on the other. The two characters establish a congenial rapport--having agreed on the fact that they were the only two creatures who could talk--despite all their disagreements about whether something was a "pickerel" or a "swimmer" or whether Eve was "raining" or "crying...
According to Aleo, in everyday life we tend to depend on the critical, conscious part of our mind. Hypnotism taps into the subconscious part--and when we are in a relaxed conscious state, we can use this less arguable state of mind and nourish it with positive ideas. Hypnotism is natural. According to Aleo, we are often in this relaxed mindframe without even knowing...
...would depend on the nature of the regime. Clearly, a successor would not be as strong, would not have 20-some years to build a regime of intimidation and fear. Saddam himself is clearly not as strong as he was at the outset of the war. He has many problems that are growing, not shrinking...
...Many of our new requirements can be satisfied only by human intelligence. Our problem in estimating Iraqi nuclear progress was that we had to depend primarily on technical intelligence, and that's why we underestimated. This is true for a lot of areas -- narcotics, terrorism. But we know human intelligence is very difficult in terms of the recruitment of agents, staying in touch with them and assuring that their information is valid...
...second as a rape: the dialogue in both versions is identical, suggesting that the question of literal consent remains problematic. Raz contends that popular culture pretends that consent is not problematic: "Stanley is a big bad hero, infamously protrayed by Marlon Brando. But a lot of our literary heroes depend on power and sexual control...