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...photos of her French chateau alongside a fatuous interview by her publisher. Filled with advice like, "shopping can pick you up, just by distracting you from grim realities..." It reads more like a spread from InStyle magazine than a continuation of the earlier, penetrating work. Giving benefit of the doubt, it could be read as failed sarcasm. If that was the point, the failure, interestingly, is in the lack of any comix. Kominsky Crumb's artwork clearly changes the tone of her artistic voice, allowing the humor to come...
...Medical technology has yet to invent a machine that can look into another's mind to see what he's feeling, or thinking. No doubt the body, with its physical brain, responds physically to noxious stimuli. But the non-physical mind is yet the only realm in which the bad experience of suffering exists. Mind and brain are mysteriously related. Lobotomized or drug-loaded patients can still answer questions. Stick one with a big needle and ask: does it hurt? Yes, it does, doctor. You can get him to report a VAS number. They might even withdraw from the needle...
...minutes to go, it was, fittingly, a penalty that shaped the game’s final minutes. Sophomore Jimmy Fraser was whistled for hooking at 18:58, giving Brown a chance to pull Rosen for a 6-on-4 advantage.“Stupid penalties down the stretch, no doubt about it,” Reese said. “We took two penalties within five minutes, one with a minute left—they’re just unacceptable.”After a grueling contest that had thus far featured 22 penalties, four ties, and three lead changes...
...Wilson. Chu recorded two assists to bump her nation-leading total to 44.“It’s pretty tough when you go to triple overtime [Feb. 6 at Boston College] and you lose an overtime game,” Stone said. “You start doubting yourselves and there’s no reason to doubt ourselves. We’re a good hockey team and we have a lot of talented players...Hopefully we can keep rolling.”—Staff writer Jonathan Lehman can be reached at jlehman@fas.harvard.edu...
...Bush - who want to send even more troops to Iraq who should feel defensive about their support for the troops. Some of those troops are on their third tour of duty in Iraq, and few of them are pleased to be there. Maybe, as Bush and his advisers no doubt sincerely believe, the drip drip drip of young American blood is worth it. Maybe the critics underestimate the peril of pulling out. Maybe the "surge" will turn out to be a huge success and vindicate Bush's strategy. But please - let's not pretend that staying the course...