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Eventually, Mr. Alltodeath has an insight: "The way I see it," he says, "we have 23 hours and nine minutes to find wives, and a group of French women has just entered our town...
...While brief psychotherapy is usually sufficient to resolve situational depression (as Israel states), long-term insight-oriented psychotherapy is often the treatment of choice for characterologic depressions. We do see students over time at the Bureau of Study Counsel, subject to assessment and availability of staff time (not on demand). Occasional instance in which therapy does not work out can often be ascribed to a student's natural anxiety or effort at self-protection, as with the English concentrator who "started to get really really scared, afraid to get into anything personal...
...portions of First in His Class about the President's attempts to avoid the draft also offer up damning new insight. According to Maraniss, when Clinton ran for Congress in 1974, he was worried about a letter he had written to his ROTC colonel thanking him ``for saving me from the draft.'' ``How Clinton . . . persuaded him to return the letter is unclear,'' Maraniss writes, but the colonel did, and Clinton believed he had put the matter to rest. He had not; an aide to the colonel kept a copy, which did near fatal damage during the '92 campaign...
British novelist Anita Brookner's 12th book comes as a welcome surprise--just when it looked as if she had settled into Barbara Pym's world of lonely females without Pym's wit and trenchant insight into character. Written from the point of view of a just retired bachelor businessman, George Bland, who becomes enthralled with a heedless, scheming young woman, A Private View (Random House; 242 pages) is not only wise but funny...
...Iron Fist Ending the inhumane disaster of the Air France hijacking by Algerian terrorists [Jan. 9] took courage, insight and determination by French authorities. The Armed Islamic Group is barbaric and savage; its way of achieving goals is to murder innocent and helpless people. The only way of dealing with such savagery is with an iron fist. We should not surrender an inch of ground. Khalid Al-Moosa London The Algerian imbroglio is like a jigsaw puzzle, difficult to solve. Between the government in Algeria and the militant Islamic Salvation Front there may be no lesser evil. But the most...