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Genghis Khan sat with his Mongol comrades-in-arms debating the question, What is life's sweetest pleasure? One man ventured that it surely was falconry. Genghis Khan -- who was not Genghis Khan for nothing -- answered, "You are mistaken. Man's greatest good fortune is to chase and defeat his enemy, seize his total possessions, leave his married women weeping and wailing, ride his gelding, and use the bodies of his women as a nightshirt...
...reasoning does not sit well with Margaret Singer, a retired professor from the University of California, Berkeley, and an expert on cults and influence techniques. She has interviewed 50 people who once believed they had recovered repressed memories of incest or ritual abuse but now think they were mistaken. All 50, Singer emphasizes, were in therapy when they "recovered" terrifying memories of abuse. "These people are reporting to me that their therapists were far more sure than they were that their parents had molested them...
...talking cures and their founder: "Even Freudian analysts don't hold themselves 100% to Freud. Psychotherapy is like one of those branching trees, where each of the branches legitimately claims a common ancestry, namely Freud, but none of the branches are sitting at the root. We'd be very mistaken to jettison psychotherapy or Freud...
...raise his sitcom work above the level of stereotype. In one Martin episode Lawrence is in a shoe store when a white customer mistakes him for a store employee. "I don't work here," he says, with the disgust that many professional blacks have felt when they are mistaken for the help. When Lawrence invites friends over to watch boxing, he sports a FREE MIKE TYSON T shirt. All this material is part of the reason Martin won an N.A.A.C.P. Image Award...
China's advantage lies in its own internal structure. From the point of view of the West, China consists of a homogeneous mass of land and people. Though this impression is a mistaken one, China has managed to defuse the issue of national identity--all of its provinces are controlled by Beijing as anonymous entities. In contrast, the Soviet Union was perpetually weakened by its scores of `secondary' nationalities and the republics' tendencies to hoard their own resources...