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Amnesia is one of those rare mental conditions--like narcissism--that it's O.K. to make fun of. Maybe that's why it's such a favorite among screenwriters: since Christmas, we have had no fewer than three movies that revolve around people misplacing their memories. In Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet pay to have the memory of their lousy relationship erased. Paycheck was a sci-fi thriller about a man (Ben Affleck) whose employers wipe his memory for security purposes. (As an extra precaution, they then erased Paycheck from the memory...
...another reason amnesia movies are everywhere: America is the land of amnesia, a frictionless meritocracy where anybody can start over at any time and work his way to the top, and every baseball team can show up on opening day with an undefeated record. It's not a mental problem; it's a national tradition. Compared with other nations, America itself is an amnesia patient, a country with only a fairly recent history to speak of, fabricated out of whole cloth a mere 200 years and change ago by a bunch of people who figured they'd start afresh...
Outside of the mental obstacle when facing Harvard without Kingsbury, the Saints would be one of the stronger teams in the Frozen Four...
Even with this progression, however, most sufferers will continue to go undiagnosed, as they are hesitant to seek treatment from mental health clinicians, Barsky said...
Luckily for the Big Green, they do not even have to consider the mental warfare that a semifinal contest against the Saints would entail.  On the other hand, No. 1 Minnesota is no cakewalk either—Dartmouth managed a split against the Gophers earlier this season, but lost the second game by a score...