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...them from gas masks and taped-up rooms, they spoke to one another on the phone and said, "It'll be all right." Even when the current intifadeh began, people told one another, "It may take time, but it'll be all right." This sentence has been the reassuring mantra-at-the-ready, but it just doesn't feel right anymore...
...life and loves of a young American woman (Arija Bareikis) who takes a job at the U.S. embassy in London after her fiance cheats on her. Yes, hard reality sometimes intruded--a terrorist bomb exploded outside the embassy--but the pilot hewed closely to the coming-of-age-drama mantra: It's All About My Feelings...
Unshackled from their government moorings and given a remit to compete, many of Britain's utilities in the 1990s took the decade's "growth is good" mantra to heart and morphed into conglomerates. Some reached beyond their own sectors for opportunities, expecting to apply their management skills to marginally related businesses. That's how energy company Scottish Power ended up owning a water company, a telecom and 160 electronics shops, as well as hawking financial-services. But the expected "synergies" of such diverse companies never fully developed, and Scottish Power's earnings - as well as its share price...
...topics not directly related to their area of expertise? The problem is not isolated to scientists—there are English professors who refuse, or are unable, to delve into questions of morality, philosophy professors unwilling to discuss literature and any number of other examples. Specialization is the current mantra, and as professors define smaller and smaller areas of expertise, our courses get narrower and narrower in scope...
...actions. It’s obvious that Ryder is seriously depressed. She’s taking medication (albeit without a doctor’s orders), and her shoplifting episode was clearly intended as a public cry for help. Frankly, it frightens me that a nation obsessed with the mantra, “United we stand,” is so quick to isolate Ryder as a pariah. Perhaps we should demonstrate our self-proclaimed “unity” and give the woman the help she so obviously needs (and wants). Ms. Ryder, if it?...