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Trials for so many high-profile politicians are likely to be long and sensational, and the military-backed caretaker body says it wants to go after dozens of other pols as well-a potential disruption that could delay elections further. No wonder this week's other big news-the appointment...
Even more revealing than the skittish media and internal political maneuvering, analysts here say, is Tehran's muted response to the U.S. military's detention of Iranian security officials in Iraq, and the raid on its official liaison office in Erbil. Both acts might have provoked a harsher response were...
Clinton's "fighting" has been pretty muted so far. Her response to the President's speech was a low-key press release: "I cannot support his proposed escalation of the war in Iraq." She then set off on a trip to Iraq and upon returning went a step further than...
But no. Depressed brains responded differently to the two kinds of treatment--and in a very interesting way. CBT muted overactivity in the frontal cortex, the seat of reasoning, logic and higher thought as well as of endless rumination about that disastrous date. Paroxetine, by contrast, raised activity there. On...
Consider "Brett" and "Davood," the blokes of David van Royen's domestic portraits-one a home handyman trapped in his glassed veranda, the other half-dressed on his bed, staring out beyond the noose of his window's chain pull, their masculine identities hovering uncertainly in the air. While Van...