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...seeds. The three and six seeds play and then, on the other side of the bracket, the four and five seeds square-off. The top four teams get the home-ice advantage for the round-of-eight game, and then the final four games are played in Lake Placid...
Though addiction specialists concede that some scamming went on in the for-profit recovery business, they nevertheless caution that for some patients, one month in a placid, nurturing environment, away from all the temptations of their old routine, is the best medicine. Dr. Frederic Schiffer, who recalls treating cocaine addicts at McLean, says he saw his patients four times a week for four weeks. "They needed the time to be held in a kind environment," he claims. "The grounds were very therapeutic. We would walk the grounds and talk...
Switzerland? If Christopher expects the Dayton agreement to transform Bosnia into a placid land of bankers and cuckoo clocks, he should listen to the recollections of Smail Hodzic, a farmer from Srebrenica. When Bosnian Serbs overran the town last July, he was taken to a basketball gym a few miles away, where at least 2,000 men were being held. Eventually, he was blindfolded, given some water--which he said had something in it that affected his vocal cords so that he could only whisper--and taken away by van with 15 or so other prisoners...
...album is a restrained affair, with reservoirs of emotion. Larrieux's voice is a placid soprano with an intriguing hint of hidden hurt. "I knew I couldn't fit into a Whitney Houston mode," says the laid-back Larrieux. Instead, her voice evokes the gently aching style of Sade, or Beth Gibbons of the British band Portishead. The songs here are similarly subdued and flow casually along, like the wistful Hey U and the jaunty Ride. Occasionally, however, they take on harsh subjects such as crack addiction, as on the softly funky 10 Minute High. "Everybody tells her to stop...
...Reported by Lawrence Mondi and Susanna Schrobsdorff/New York and Elaine Rivera/Lake Placid...