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...permanently change the master's American reputation as the Japanese Walt Disney. Though it retains Tezuka's core interest in the karmic consequences of immoral behavior, in this particular book he seems to take a strange pleasure in depicting the worst of human nature. How else do explain scenes like a dog-faced former nun being raped by her physician...
Former classmates’ recollections of her involvement in the anti-apartheid controversy, however, may explain how Granholm has remained an appealing candidate for some...
...dismayed by your article "Turning Hunger into Hatred." The article explained in detail everything the Israelis have destroyed and how miserable Palestinians' lives are as a result. Not once did it explain the defensive reasons for Israel's actions. The blame lies solely with the Palestinians for encouraging terrorist activities...
This proclivity for poor timing is not described in any textbook but is a phenomenon well known to psychologists. Two concepts explain the behavior. The first is recency bias, a tendency to place a disproportionately large emphasis on recent price performance without sufficiently weighing other relevant facts, including long-term performance and valuation...
Just five months into his job as president of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), Etienne de Villiers faced a hostile crowd of doubles pros at the Masters Cup in Shanghai to explain to them why he would have to curtail their sport to save it. The players had already filed suit against the ATP, and there was De Villiers last November, back swinging just four months after cancer surgery, telling them he was going to go ahead with a shortened, no-ad scoring system; a super tie-break instead of a third set; and a rule that doubles players...