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...thirds of the 227 underwent SEGT; the rest received relaxation therapy. While the results are not yet ready for release, they "indicate there are some significant benefits from SEGT," says project coordinator Brenda Grabsch. The women learned to mourn their fate, then "rise above these feelings to discover humor and creativity," says former Thursday Girls therapist David Kissane, now chairman of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City. By showing the women how to approach dying with courage and how "to say goodbye in poignant, meaningful ways while living...
...Officers were sent to investigate a noise complaint at the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. Officers spoke to the occupants and told them to hold the noise down and return a stereo that was outside to indoors...
...inflated Kerry's most annoying trait--his nuance-addled hedging of political bets--into a defining character flaw. That was fair, as was the dreadful broadside of ads taking isolated Kerry votes--98 times, allegedly, for higher taxes--and telescoping them into an ideological pattern. Negative advertising is like humor. Selective exaggeration is standard, but the exaggeration must have a basis in reality. Kerry is more likely than Bush to raise taxes and increase the role of government. The Bush ads tiptoed the line that separates hyperbole from fabrication. Even Dick Cheney's rancid assertion that the U.S. would...
...Motion Picture Association of America has given Team America: World Police an R rating for "graphic, crude and sexual humor, violent images and strong language--all involving puppets." That about sums up the new martial-arts musical marionette movie from South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Inspired by the '60s British TV and movie series Thunderbirds, Parker and Stone have fashioned a naughty, handsome, sporadically funny pre-election recruiting poster for U.S. military values at their most myopically heroic...
Sure, it's only a movie, but there's the possibility that Team America could do for the right what Jon Stewart and Michael Moore have done for the left: instruct and energize through japish humor...