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Time passes and paths cross. But Birdie and Finus never do get together. Unlike in Gabriel García Márquez’ Love in the Time of Cholera, the ill-starred couple never are united, even as a reward for outliving their circumstantial adversaries—their spouses...
Babcock’s hypnotherapy was not limited to helping those with psychological problems. Using visualization techniques, Babcock attempted to help terminally ill cancer patients to overcome their disease. Some of his surviving former patients still attribute their unlikely recovery to hypnotherapy...
...thought to be cornered in the craggy valleys of Tora Bora in eastern Afghanistan. The American strategy was to enlist Afghan proxies to search the caves for bin Laden while U.S. warplanes pummeled possible sanctuaries from overhead. The scheme failed miserably. The Afghans were poorly trained and ill equipped and lacked their opponents' to-the-death fighting spirit. Officials with the U.S. military's Central Command maintain that they did not have enough troops on the ground to mount an assault on Tora Bora; but U.S. commanders resisted dispatching even the 1,000 Marines in Afghanistan at the time...
Still, making exceptions wouldn't solve the core problem of high schools' turning out ill-prepared graduates. And some argue that college remediation actually makes the problem worse. Jackson Toby, a Rutgers sociology professor, says remedial and other programs that maximize access to college send a message to high schoolers that getting into college is no big deal. Williams reflects this point of view when he says of a few of his remedial classmates, "They're not in the real world now, so some are probably more interested in socializing. The real world will be a jolt." If that...
...failed to mention that several of the dictatorships the U.S. has assisted were created by the U.S., often by destroying an existing democracy. Could Krauthammer's real point be that the U.S. should prop up dictators when democracy results in a government the U.S. dislikes? JEFFREY FRANK Arlington Heights, Ill...