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...pride,” Fredman says. Both Greenvald and Fredman highlight the tension between security and an ethical code of conduct in the complex challenges they faced.For Nitzan Shilon, a former officer in the Israeli and a second-year student at Harvard Law School, the competing claims between securing oneself as a soldier and conducting oneself in accordance with the Israeli military code of conduct led to inevitable conflict. “Whatever you do, you will do the wrong thing,” he says.VOICING CONCERNSWhile some say that the exhibit is important because it exposes the reality...
...that such suicides are not simply a call for help gone wrong, but that anorexics are genuinely determined to die when they attempt to kill themselves. Some of the disturbing means the nine patients profiled used included jumping in front of moving trains, ingesting dangerous household cleaners and setting oneself on fire. These patients also tended to isolate themselves before their suicide attempt, most likely in order to reduce the possibility they would receive life-saving help. "We established that these patients' death had little to do with their low body weight," says lead author Jill Holm-Denoma, a professor...
Chingy’s tired. Hella tired. Chingy falls asleep, and oh my, does Chingy have a dream! What no one’s told Chingy, I’d venture to guess, is that some dreams are best kept to oneself. The video for his new single “Gimme That,” is an ode to the unfettered sub-conscious. Generally, when the masturbatory tendencies of one’s deepest thoughts reach the point when they are freely allowed to rear their head in real life, you can be certain of two things. One, you?...
...Evacuating oneself, as it turns out, sucks. The hike out is a wet blur in my memory, except for when we had to ford a flooded river using ropes in a sort of life-or-death trust fall. In testimonials printed on FOP’s promotional materials, this should have been the moment when I rose to the challenge, mastered my fear, and remained changed forever. In real life, I shouted a few profanities as my grip on the rope slipped and the team leader was forced to lug me across the river with...
...Many pieces of advice, especially, “You can only get smarter by playing a smarter opponent,” are repeated incessantly, boring the viewer to tears. Contradicting this maxim is the film’s other major message: One’s only real opponent is oneself. Furthermore, the situations that arise in the movie hardly promote either of these ideas. In fact, many of the minor story lines are completely incoherent, with plot points coming out of nowhere and having inconclusive or confusing resolutions. While the movie has many shortcomings, certain actors kept the sinking ship...