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...more than they work miracles. This crisis, says clinical psychologist Jeffrey Slutsky, "can serve as a catalyst for reconciliation if the people involved were already primed for it. But it takes more than even these traumatic events to change people's character." In fact, crisis may serve mainly to reveal character, for better or worse. Jeanne, an art director for a magazine in Northern California, was planning her March wedding in New Orleans; her fiance was a New York City stockbroker working one block from the Twin Towers. After the attacks, she expected him to hop the first plane, train...
...hunters stalked their prey from the sky and in the shadows, armed with instruments of death and waiting for Osama bin Laden to reveal himself. Above the gnarled ridges outside the besieged cities of Jalalabad and Kandahar, U.S. warplanes unloaded laser-guided Maverick missiles and 5,000-lb. bunker busters to collapse limestone redoubts and bury anyone taking cover inside. Members of the U.S. Army's clandestine 800-man Delta Force tracked likely bin Laden hideouts, equipped with night-vision goggles and stun grenades, in case they had to creep inside the mountains, and laser pointers, in the hope that...
Dramaturg Susannah P. Morse ’03, involved in maintaining the play’s integrity, writes in her introductory notes that the modernism of the play is intended to “reveal the universal relevance of [the] story.” Yet it is from the depiction of the specific that one realizes universality. The impact of the play is diminished when one seeks abstraction—especially when no greater relevance seems to exist in a vague modern setting than in 1900 Russia...
...pretends those pricey little nutrition bars are as good for you as, say, a platter of vegetables. But at least we know what's in them, right? Not necessarily. A consumer group finds that 60% of nutrition bars have more sugar, fat or carbohydrates than their labels reveal. Not all labels lie: the group gives passing marks to Luna, Gatorade Energy and Balance bars...
...Pentagon mindset prevailed when first it denied, then grudgingly confirmed, that its planes bombed four well-marked Red Cross warehouses, a U.N. demining depot and the Herat hospital. To retain credibility and what may become increasingly fragile global support, officials must acknowledge that Taliban videos and claims can reveal a truth of sorts, however thin and garbled the first details...