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...each candidate threw a bouquet at the other, a now predictable-and shrewd -coda for both of them, whether they were in a conciliatory or a fighting mood...
...meet a U.K. standard for clinical relevance - and that was mostly because the very depressed did not respond as much to placebos. The drug trials showed SSRI patients improved, on average, by 1.8 points on the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, a common tool to rate symptoms such as low mood, insomnia, and lack of appetite. The U.K. authorities use a drug-placebo difference of three points to determine clinical significance...
...What has been the greatest challenge in going from Australian theater to American theater? CME: Trying to get the rhythm and tone and mood of the theater here has definitely been the biggest challenge. Tuning my eye to American speech has been quite a difficult thing but quite a beautiful thing. There is this expectation in America that plays end on a positive note. There is this need for redemption. The religion in this country is very deeply embedded. Australia is a much more cynical place. Several of my favorite playwrights are British and they tend to be more comfortable...
...small rural town about 160 km north of the nation?s capital, Kuala Lumpur. The coffee shops are filling up with people, mostly rubber and oil palm farmers, many of whom roar into town in new Toyota and Ford pickup trucks. These small farmers are in a jolly mood. With commodities prices at highs not seen in generations, many are prospering to a degree that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. The incomes of small landowners almost tripled between 2004 and 2007, according to government data. Some farmers say they have just returned from group holidays...
...upbeat mood is washing over rural Malaysia-and Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi hopes to ride it to victory in the country's March 8 parliamentary election. Rising prices have put hard cash into the pockets of hundreds of thousands of small farmers across the country. The boom should translate into votes for Abdullah's government and for the National Front, a coalition of more than a dozen political parties that has held a majority in parliament since the country became independent in 1957. "Vast stretches of rural Malaysia are backing Mr. Abdullah," says political scientist Shamsul Amri Baharuddin, professor...