Word: mentalities
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...beautifully felt performance behind that face ought to earn Thornton, who also wrote and directed Sling Blade, an Oscar nomination or two next week. The tale of Karl's return home after 25 years in a mental hospital, and of the awful temptations to repeat his crime, has already turned the actor into Hollywood's guy du jour. Clint Eastwood, Elizabeth Taylor, Mel Gibson and Tom Cruise are vocal fans of the film, and Thornton's fellow Arkansan Bill Clinton is expected to screen it at the White House soon. A perennial supporting player, Thornton is now getting fat roles...
QUITO, Ecuador: After voting "El Loco" out of the presidency, Ecuador's lawmakers are discovering that in their country, "El Presidente" is a very common name. When Congress voted 44-34 Thursday night to oust President Abdala Bucaram for "mental incapacity" after two days of massive strikes and protests, the streets of Quito erupted in celebration. The legislature quickly swore in its own leader, Fabian Alarcon, as interim president pending new elections. But after the vote, a defiant Bucaram barricaded himself inside the national palace, surrounded by troops in combat uniforms, saying he won't turn over the government...
Although it is wonderful that the University is finally acting on improving the inadequate mental and physical health system here at Harvard, this should have happened years ago. Nonetheless, we are pleased that the University is finally taking the student voice seriously. We hope that students will take advantage of this opportunity to express concerns about health services as well as to promote changes in UHS policy. We look forward to an informed and speedy process of change in UHS and for the advising system at Harvard as a whole...
...Rose law firm, which disappeared during the 1992 campaign only to reappear last year in the First Family?s living quarters. McDougal's story, if it checks out, supposedly will shed light on these issues. The problem for prosecutors is that testimony from a man with a history of mental illness who is looking to plead down his conviction on 18 felony charges may prove less than convincing to a jury...
...bureaucratic backlogs delaying the granting of citizenship to legal immigrants is leaving thousands of legal residents of the U.S. in a benefits no-man?s-land. Says 59-year-old Korean native Chul Baek, a resident of Los Angeles who depends on federal benefits for treatment of his mental illness: "I have no idea how I'm going to live without this...