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...abrupt policy change followed a familiar pattern for the Bush team: resist, resist, resist--especially if Bill Clinton championed it--then relent when reality intrudes. Brazil, with Latin America's No. 1 economy and the world's ninth largest, was simply too big to fail. The fallout would have rocked Wall Street, where major U.S. banks and businesses have huge exposure--more than $100 billion in loans and investments. While diehard ideologues cried betrayal, the business-first wing of the G.O.P. was delighted by the Administration's about-face. "The bank stocks are all up," said a Republican operative...
...things aren't nearly so clear. Most children with the condition are ultra-rapid cyclers, flitting back and forth among mood states several times a day. Papolos, who co-wrote The Bipolar Child, studied 300 bipolar kids ages 4 through 18, and he believes he has spotted a characteristic pattern. In the morning, bipolar children are more difficult to rouse than the average child. They resist getting up, getting dressed, heading to school. They are either irritable, with a tendency to snap and gripe, or sullen and withdrawn...
...razed homes and businesses and killed dozens, many of them holidaymakers. It was the wildest flooding to hit the region in more than a century. And it left everyone from homeowners to politicians to scientists wondering why it was happening now. Last week's weather doesn't fit the pattern suggested by global warming, which predicts wetter winters and drier summers as temperatures rise. "You won't hear me say it's a sign of global warming," says Vaclav Baca of Povodi Vltavy, the Czech state company that manages waterworks on the Vltava. "It simply rained a lot." Others...
...Four bold notes, ascending by thirds, and then a break; the pattern repeated four times in the first verse, and Van Eaton's drums emphasizing the musical statement, as JLL itemizes a lover's complaint, "You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain..." Mid-rant, he muses that passion has its perverse perks ("You broke my will, but what a thrill"), before surrendering to ecstatic inanity: "Goodness gracious! Great balls of fire!" The second verse, which explains the singer's agitation as an agreeable form of sexual psychosis, punctuates the news with three right-hand arpeggios, while the bass...
Some 80% of intimate-partner homicides are preceded by a pattern of abuse. There were warning signs in at least two of the Bragg cases. Married for eight years, the Griffins had separated at least twice, most recently in May. Wilma Watson, Jennifer Wright's mother, told Time that her daughter's marriage began to unravel two years ago, just as Bill Wright's assignments were increasing. After each of his deployments, their estrangement intensified. "Mommy, he's like a different person when he comes back," Jennifer would...