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...issue” which the film discusses is no issue at all. We are expected to feel a grudging admiration for this Colonel Nicholson as he suffers, and makes his men suffer, for his little point of principle. However, anybody who hates the waste of pain and misery is likely to find his admiration somewhat more grudging than the author expects...
...China's Pain I bought your magazine because of the cover photo showing the hand of a dead victim of the Chinese earthquake [May 26]. As a Chinese citizen studying in Australia, I would like to thank you for your fine cover story and objective comentary. Jizong Fang, Sydney...
...latest flashpoint in the global financial crisis, Iceland is nursing a familiar sort of economic pain in a typically cool way. Over the past two years, the country's banks enjoyed extraordinary growth by borrowing heavily on international capital markets, leading Iceland to rack up a $2.7 billion current-account deficit, equivalent to 16% of its GDP; the comparable figure even in the notoriously indebted U.S. is only 5%. In January banks worldwide clamped down on loans in response to the global credit crunch, and investors began to worry that Icelandic banks had leveraged themselves too aggressively. Rumors swirled that...
...concerned about making these things freely available. I think there are some rational concerns, and I think they're about the message we send to people about the best ways to deal with their problems. If you take a painkiller, it's hard to ignore the cause of the pain - if it's something like toothache or appendicitis - because eventually [the condition] is going to get really serious. I guess the worry is that, with antidepressants, you could actually, in the long term, avoid dealing with underlying problems - and that we would do a disservice to our citizens...
...camps as the final vote tallies. Jesse Jackson, who knows a thing or two about waging a long and bitter primary battle - and about reconciling when it is over - said recently, "The winner really needs the loser." But then he added that unless the loser gets over the "pain" of coming in second, the party is doomed. Nothing is more likely to bring the loser's supporters aboard than seeing their candidate throw herself wholeheartedly behind the winner. On the other hand, when the post-primary relationship doesn't gel - Democrats remember how excruciating it was to see Jimmy Carter...