Word: hsia
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...Classic. My mind had leaped in the space of a nanosecond from a waiting room in Logan Airport to a death spiral over the Atlantic. Dr. Curtis Hsia of Boston University's Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders calls this automatic thinking. It was even worse a few hours earlier when, as part of my treatment for a debilitating case of aviophobia (fear of flying), Dr. Hsia had booked me on Exposure Airlines. It's the newest thing in phobic therapy: a virtual airplane of hardware, software and fancy head-mounted display screens that feels like the real thing...
...window. Not good. We're in the middle of a thunderstorm. The seats ahead of me are shaking. I can feel the thunder in my bones. I know this isn't real, but I can't seem to control my fear. Through the din, I hear Dr. Hsia ask me how I'm feeling on an anxiety scale of 1 to 10: total relaxation to panic. I'm pushing 9. The storm thunders on. I am hating this...
Just five months before the presidential elections, the whole ugly 1996 campaign-finance mess has come washing back, along with memories of fund raisers John Huang and Maria Hsia, the Buddhist-temple incident and the never fully answered question of how foreign money wound up in Democratic Party accounts to help the Clinton White House win re-election in 1996. Which is why the Gore campaign battled right back last week. "We're not going to take this lying down," a Gore staff member said hours after the news broke on Thursday. On Friday Gore released the transcript...
...Ending for 22-Across? 6. Toughen, as steel 7. Bob of Full House 8. Radner and namesakes 9. Results of arms treaties, sometimes 10. Knocker's reply 11. Congressman Rothman called him a "brutish thug" 12. __ de deux 16. Seemingly forever 19. Senator Joseph, who endorsed Gore 21. Hsia, who was found guilty of making illegal contributions to the Democrats 23. Hell, to Sherman 24. D.C. fund raiser 26. Natural-selection theoretician 27. __ Halonen, Finland's first woman President 28. Hall of Famer Lefty 29. Pollster's projection 30. Stutz Bearcat contemporary 31. Wen Ho Lee has been denied bail...
Granted, hearing Gore and Bush talk about campaign finance is a bit like hearing Microsoft extol the virtues of antitrust law. Gore's campaign has been hounded by a Justice Department investigation for 1996 fundraising practices. Recently, Maria Hsia, a Democratic fund-raiser, was indicted for her role in the now-infamous Buddhist Temple incident. Meanwhile, Bush's campaign gained notoriety for the millions it raised from wealthy donors. Bush's recent campaign finance proposal would allow still candidates to fundraise from these very same donors, and Bush's large tax breaks for higher-income Americans would ensure that these...