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...When you’re starved, a potato has no peel,” says a Creole proverb. In keeping with the abundance of the island’s produce, servings are hardly scarce. At Nouvelle Lune, Mondesir serves meals that are twice blessed with surprising blends and generous portions...
Spring does funny things to this campus. It is the combination of hospitable weather and the realization that the year is running out that makes us bravely peel off excess restraint to expose our whitened goose-bumpy flesh to the changeable winds. With student excitability at its peak, campus causes emerging from their winters of discontent must seize the moment to rally for lasting change. It is the best and worst of times...
...second resolution if Washington strong-arms enough yes votes out of the six countries sitting on the fence, but the U.S. believes France and Russia can be stared down. Russia, in particular, is under intense U.S. pressure to keep its veto in its pocket. U.S. diplomats are trying to peel Russia away and isolate Paris, daring the French to veto the U.S. resolution on their own. At a closed-doors lunch after Friday's meeting, Powell made an emotional last appeal for support, telling the other ministers that the U.S. would never have come to the U.N. to begin with...
That gives all parties who hope to head off a war, including Saddam, a narrow window to try to wiggle out. Since November, the Iraqis have avoided handing the inspectors any clear provocations, while revealing almost nothing, in an effort to string out the inspections, peel allies away from Washington and scuttle any U.S. attempt to win Security Council approval for force. But that alone will not spare Saddam, since the Administration has never believed that it needed another U.N. vote to strike Iraq...
Common mental conditions, such as anxiety disorders, eating disorders and depression, can be thought of as a pathological rind wrapped around an intact core. Peel the skin away through talk therapy or melt it away with drugs, and the problem may abate. Personality disorders, by contrast, are marbleized through the entire temperament. Narcissists may be self-absorbed, but they believe they jolly well have a right to be. Histrionic personalities may make too much of things, but how else can they be heard? It's hard enough to persuade most people to see a therapist--harder still when the patient...