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...book on escaping awkward social interactions called “Saving Face.” But in “Live Free or Die” there is nothing funny about the not-so-ironic depression that follows the audience home after witnessing a full-length film about hopeless, directionless mediocrity and with barely enough character development for one episode of a sitcom. —Staff writer Mollie K. Wright can be reached at mkwright@fas.harvard.edu...
Look closely at the numbers, though, and women don't seem so hopeless with money after all. Median annual credit-card debt for single women was just $1,900 in 2004, compared with $2,000 for single men, according to the Federal Reserve Board's Survey of Consumer Finances. But don't tell that to Glinda Bridgforth, author of Girl, Get Your Credit Straight!, who recommends visualization and meditation to help us break plastic's grip on our financial well-being...
With every passing day, the situation in Iraq seems increasingly hopeless. Young people are sent to Iraq by the planeload, and return jaded and disillusioned with the difference our presence is making there. Despite Senator John McCain’s assertions to the contrary, Baghdad outside the Green Zone remains dangerous, the Iraqi government remains weak, and the sectarian violence remains endless. And Americans grow ever more restless. America’s Iraq policy is drowning in quicksand, yet our president insists that we can still swim out. Just a few more strokes, he says; all that?...
...Thought to strike about 1% of adults, bipolar can look a lot like depression even to the trained eye. Though it's defined by almighty shifts in mood-from sad and hopeless to mania, in which irrational thoughts and impulses run amok - bipolar sufferers tend to spend much more time in an emotional black hole and may consult a doctor before they've experienced a high. In these cases, a misdiagnosis of depression happens a lot, says Malhi, and that's a problem because bipolar is "a totally different condition" requiring different treatment...
...some shit to blow up.” With its flawed, but gripping, portrayal of Iraq, the film tries to supply both drama and insight, but it can’t get either quite right. Yet you have to give Haas some credit: if the audience leaves the theatre hopeless and unsatisfied, it’s somewhat fitting for a film about Iraq...