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...Fassler, a professor at the University of Vermont and a psychiatrist who works with traumatized kids. People have made much of the fact that Smart did not cry out in public or try to escape. But this doesn't mean she was brainwashed. She may have been threatened with harm if she made a peep and thus pursued an unconscious survival strategy of trying to win the goodwill of her captors. Such behavior might, from the outside, resemble affection or even love...
When Massachusetts Governor W. Mitt Romney announced last month that he was restructuring the state budget for Fiscal Year 2004, he claimed that the plan would save the state $2.17 billion without doing much harm. “The budget is balanced. It doesn’t raise taxes; it preserves our commitment to care for those who can’t care for themselves,” Romney said at the time. A month later, a series of crushing cuts in state aid to municipalities and human services reveal the flimsiness of Romney’s third claim...
...plan subsequently withdrawn in the face of widespread opposition from faculty and students—Kirby masked the obvious ill-effects his proposal would have had on student life. Counterintuitively, he maintained that preregistration would improve the undergraduate experience. Even less plausibly, he claimed that it would not substantially harm the College’s prized shopping period. But saying something does not make it so, and Kirby’s terms of description have borne little resemblance to the harsh realities of both preregistration and the departure of Lewis. Kirby would be wise to refrain from such misleading, sadly...
...toughest decision a President has to make, to send the sons and daughters of Americans into harm's way," George H.W. declares. He recalls that before he sent these "wonderful young" troops into battle in Panama, the anxiety was terrible. "The night before I could not move my neck or arms. The tension had taken hold, the responsibility for those lives, even though I had been in combat myself...
...considering that he worked with 500 rats. "Crispin's neuroses are a little more people oriented," Morgan explains. Adds Willard co-star Laura Elena Harring (Mulholland Dr.): "He's sweet, and he's intense at the same time. He has a wonderful awkwardness. Do you think he meant to harm David Letterman? Please. It was just innocence...