Word: schizophrenia
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...Bolton case illustrates the schizophrenia of U.S. policy towards North Korea. Ever since it first assumed office, the Bush administration has been divided over how to deal with the regime of Kim Jong Il. In February 2001 Secretary of State Colin Powell told Congress that the new administration would continue the dialogue with Pyongyang begun by the Clinton team, but was quickly rebuked by President Bush's skepticism that North Korea could be trusted to keep its agreements. North Korea justified that skepticism late the following year by admitting that it had been pursuing a clandestine nuclear weapons program...
...that my 9 a.m. plans meant little to anyone else made them all the more special to me. Sarwer-Foner was going to be my third interviewee for my senior thesis—a relatively obscure physician for a relatively obscure topic: the history of insulin coma therapy for schizophrenia. If that doesn’t ring a bell, Russell Crowe convulsing violently through the window of Trenton State Psychiatric Hospital, as a pained Jennifer Connelly looks on, probably does. John Nash, the subject of A Beautiful Mind, received the now-defunct therapy for schizophrenia. (Incidentally, convulsions only occurred...
Dick Gephardt continued his gradual descent into schizophrenia. He’s so full of “wink-winks” and “nudge-nudges” that ultimately we have no idea what he’s trying to tell us. After years of pussyfooting moderateness in the House, he appeared last month with his behemoth Health Care Plan to End All Health Care Plans (not to mention Bush’s tax-cut plan). Gephardt wants very badly to be Clinton. Clinton had so fully mastered the art of chicanery that we all relished those...
...case of cultural indigestion. But his diagnosis is subtler than most: he suggests that the reactionary forces that led Japan into World War II promoted myths of Japaneseness?including the Emperor cult?that were themselves based on ideas borrowed from the West. In short, Japan's cultural schizophrenia runs deep. It explains, Buruma writes, why many Japanese today believe that foreign pressure?gaiatsu?is needed to force the nation to reengineer its wheezing economy...
...Harvard softball team split a Sunday showdown against Drexel that was marked by the Crimson’s schizophrenia at the plate and dominance on the mound...