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...heart attacks, or the bypass operations afterward that, for some reason, often leave the patient prone to depression? It would seem an odd emotional logic to become depressed after having been given new piping and a new lease on life. Some lore has it that bypass people are a little crazier than most, that the "cabbage" (coronary artery bypass) activates a wild hair. I am beginning to think there's truth in the theory that bypass surgery savages the memory (something to do with oxygen deprivation while on the heart-lung machine). My memory was once photographic. Now I have...
...European leaders, the fear is that George Bush will act as if he's president of Texas: not exactly isolationist, but uncurious, prone to lecture, unilateralist. Even during the Clinton era they found Republicans in Congress hostile to the sorts of multilateral, institution-building initiatives that come naturally to close neighbors heavily invested in the long march of European union. Mainly because of Republican opposition, Washington owes back dues of some $1.65 billion to the U.N. and has shrunk its development aid to 0.11% of gdp, about one-third of the rich-country average, despite record U.S. budget surpluses...
...soldier. Humpty Dumpty Land has moments of surprising grace, handling reds and greens with visual and symbolic skill, and creating an unnerving atmosphere largely around water: the movements of tides, the lazy formation of tiny pools, drip by drip and the glassy surfaces of puddles that dimly reflect a prone man’s bloodied head. Dog Days, an uncomfortably heavyhanded, if moderately haunting, post-apocalyptic tale, fared more poorly. The film centers around a family’s reaction to the arrival of a man who has taken on the persona and the appearance of a dog. His desperate...
...escalate behavior that prompts the U.S. to attack - after all, a few surface-to-air missile systems may be a small price to pay for prompting an error by allied planes that may help him turn moderate Arab regimes against Washington's policies. Then again, Saddam is also notoriously prone to miscalculating...
...THEM FEE Air travelers prone to altering nonrefundable bookings no longer need to pay that $75 "change fee" to American, United or Continental. They will need to pay $90 (American) or $100 fees. Other airlines' penalties are expected to take off; as a Mission, Kans., travel specialist puts it, "They're like lemmings." Carriers say the fees replace money lost when they can't resell seats that customers have abandoned. Low-fare rivals, like Southwest, do not charge the penalty...