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...taking the failure of his insulation business in Little Rock hard as well. "It's so embarrassing. When I left, it was netting about $300,000 a year, and now it's $500,000 in the hole," he says. The tension is exacting a toll. "There's a disconnect there somewhere," Bunn says, tapping his head. "My highs are real high and my lows are real low. It's like a light switch, my mind." Hoping that other soldiers will seek help, he's open about taking Paxil, an antidepressant, for posttraumatic stress disorder. Loud noises-even test runs...
...That gloom hasn't yet filtered down to ordinary South Koreans. And the startling disconnect between official views of the danger that Kim Jong Il's despotic government poses to the world and the sanguine attitudes of South Korean citizens is making it desperately hard for diplomats from Washington and Seoul to forge a common strategy for defusing the crisis. After years of regarding North Koreans as bitter enemies, the prosperous, democratic South now holds a benign view of the hunger-wracked police state. To southerners, North Koreans may be brothers from another planet (as the International Crisis Group...
Throughout her work, Camacho considers “mediated forms of communications, connections, disconnections, privacy, absence and transience.” This is well exemplified in her “extremely elongated gloves and sleeve-like sculptures.” While her friends say that the long-fingered gloves could create a popular fashion trend, Camacho focuses on conveying a sense of disconnect and isolation...
...larger story here is the dangerous Democratic disconnect on foreign policy. Whether you were for the Iraq war or against it, liberals have got to put national security back at the center of what it means to be a liberal. The times demand it; the voters expect it; and Democratic history can inspire it. Since when are the Republicans—who have long despised the “nation-building,” foreign aid, and public diplomacy that are vital to the war on terror—the party of foreign policy idealism? And since when...
...courtesy, we try to reach [the person responsible]” and ask him or her to disconnect the device, Davis said. He said that if the individual cannot be contacted, his or her roommates are asked to disconnect the offending computer...