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...important thing," says TV's Homer Simpson to his daughter, "is for your mother to repress what happened, push it deep down inside her so she'll never annoy us again." Though he may not grasp all the nuances, Homer turns out to be just another disciple of Sigmund Freud. That, at least, is one of the revelations to be found in "Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture," the largest ever exhibition on the founder of modern psychology, set to open next week at the Library of Congress in Washington. Along with some 200 TV and film clips that document Freud...
...decade, delivers an impassioned performance as Sethe, the woman who desperately wants to live a simple life but finds her past will not let her. For all the strength and dedication Winfrey brings to the role, there is still the nagging sense that the movie is unable to grasp the true inner conflict of her character. Without the novelist's luxury of being able to enter a character's head, Beloved is only able to deliver a skin-deep version of Sethe, one whose subconscious turmoil is never clearly evident...
...execution; a man can rid himself of a wife merely by saying "I divorce thee" three times. The more moderate Islamic states apply Shari'a to family and religion but not to legal and state matters. Take beards, for example: in Afghanistan, members of the ruling Taliban militia will grasp a passerby's facial hair in their fist. If the beard is shorter than the Taliban's fist, the offender is publicly whipped. But next door in Iran, Shi'ite Muslims believe that according to the Koran, a beard can be a stubbly 1 cm long. Nawaz Sharif, whose chin...
...polo team (3-7) entered last night's contest against MIT riding a wave of confidence and with expectations of victory. Instead, after a hard fought battle against the Engineers, they left Blodgett Pool dealing with a 10-9 setback, feeling as if victory had been stolen from their grasp...
...outsmart the American people, fooling us with a front of contrition while weaseling out of the consequences that he has brought on himself. This assumption shows the fundamental disrespect that the President has for his constituents and for his office. It shows that he fails to grasp the idea that the American president is not above the law that governs the American people. It shows that he is still not above misleading the people in order...