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...under his influence and fell in love with that, and then found my own interest developing from that start. It was actually reading “Tristram Shandy”; I really fell in love with this fabulous novel,one of the great comic novels of the 18th century. LD: Not as great as “Jacques Le Fataliste.” DD: That’s interesting. I read “Jacques Le Fataliste” after that. I liked them both.LD: We don’t have to prioritize. DD: That’s right...
...Gandhi family has towered over its democracy for 60 years. In the Middle East, after helping broker a historic peace deal with Israel in 1993, Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement quickly lapsed into authoritarianism and corruption. As a young man, Henning Melber, executive director at the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation in Uppsala, Sweden, fought in Namibia against white rule. Watching his fellow liberators turn on their own people once the war was won taught him that revolution and democracy are "incompatible," he says. (See pictures of China doing business in Africa...
...Provocatively titled "Is Golf Bad for Your Hearing?" the study focused on the case of a 55-year-old man who developed tinnitus and hearing loss in his right ear after playing golf three days a week for 18 months with a thin-faced titanium driver, the King Cobra LD. After ruling out age-induced hearing loss and damage from exposure to other loud noises, the patient's doctors at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital in eastern England decided to test his golf club...
Buchanan says it is too early to call for a ban on such drivers - or for golfers to give up the new clubs they got for Christmas. (Acushnet Europe, maker of the King Cobra LD, said it was reviewing the study but declined further comment.) There have been no population studies to date, and, while golf may be a popular game among retirees suffering from age-related hearing loss, there has been no indication of increased inner-ear damage among younger, healthier players. That may be because the titanium clubs have become popular only in the past decade, and ultra...
...tortured patient who could not perceive objects from his left fieƒld of vision, Bartkus is impressive as a man who speaks rapidly in half-words and even, as a symptom of his disorder, invented some new words. Equally remarkable were performances by Videt, as a person with obsessive-compulsive disorder, and Redko as a man who can no longer recognize the face of his wife...