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...Simon Hytten Rome Cruise Acts Out Your article on tom cruise and his over-the-top profession of passion for actress Katie Holmes on the Oprah TV show was right on the money [June 6]. Cruise certainly didn't need to jump up and down on a sofa to prove he's an imbecile. And who is he to criticize Brooke Shields or any other woman who seeks medical help for postpartum depression? Is Cruise really against prescription drugs, or does the idea of a strong woman taking charge of her health frighten him? Cruise's opinions belong...
...desperate friends. He sympathizes, but with a purpose; he too is interested in precedents. Surely, he concludes, morality swings both ways here. What is moral for the group cannot always be moral for the individual, or there would be no individuality, no exceptions, even if the exceptions only prove the rule. Let the people have their rules. What harm would it do history to relieve Emily's pain? A little harm, perhaps, no more than that...
...Hanging in the air was the belief that masochism exists but henceforth no woman will ever be diagnosed as suffering from it because the women's movement would be disappointed. Some of the women even doubt that a masochistic personality exists. Garfinkel believes there "simply is no research" to prove it. Walker thinks the group should "junk the whole thing." "Basically," said the beleaguered Spitzer, the feminists are "against what we are trying to do ... They are so enmeshed in spouse abuse that they can't focus on what we see as a problem--that there are people whose pain...
...Chinese to head the once colonial bastion--has long defied expectations. After being detained in the early 1970s while protesting for better treatment of Hong Kong's poor, he became an in-house adviser to the colony's British Governor in the late 1980s. Now he will have to prove he can navigate the bulky $316 billion Asia-Pacific arm of the London-based HSBC Holdings into a booming banking frontier: China. In 2001 the bank became the first foreign commercial bank to buy into a mainland counterpart since the 1949 communist takeover, and it is now the largest foreign...
...neocon boss straight out of the Pentagon. Some feared the Bank's Iranian division would be shut down to penalize the theocratic regime. Others thought Wolfowitz might be a halfhearted leader; in the minds of some conspiracy theorists, the Bush Administration had tapped Wolfowitz for the job to prove that World Bank-style aid doesn't work. A satirical staff newsletter imagined that instead of bopping around Washington in a limousine, Wolfowitz would travel in an Apache helicopter. Economist Jeffrey Sachs, head of the U.N. Millennium Project to reduce global poverty, hunger and disease, questioned Wolfowitz's lack of economic...