Word: self
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Naturally, Perlman has his rationalist assumptions upended. Hansen's serio-comic hero is another good poke at the preening self-confidence of science, in this case the budding efforts at the turn of the century to systematize the study of the mind...
Some seniors, though, self-regulate. They don't drive at night or on busy highways. "I know what hours to go out and get ahead of those young people," says Mildred Mosely, 74, a retired nurse from Oakland, Calif., who cut back on her driving after cataract surgery...
There may be only two practical ways to deal with the question of privacy for candidates, and neither relies on the self-restraint of the press, since that is a forlorn hope. The first is the "let it all hang out" approach, in which the candidate answers every question, truthfully, and relies on the good sense of the people to weigh the importance of what is disclosed. There is good reason to believe, post-Clinton, that we have arrived at a time in which the public can sort out what's important and what is merely embarrassing. Do most candidates...
Just two days before Stepashin was fired, some 1,500 Islamic militants armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles, bazookas, self-propelled antiaircraft guns and armor marched into Dagestan from Chechnya. The move was the latest, most violent shot in a creeping war that has been ravaging Dagestan since Russia's invasion of Chechnya in 1994. Russian federal forces have been continually engaged in action against Chechen raiders eager to see the coastal province of Dagestan annexed into land-locked Chechnya. The province is of vital strategic importance to Russia, representing 70% of the nation's frontage on the oil-producing Caspian...
...Turturro is a playwright struggling to finish a play--is an excuse for a lot of ill-considered, utterly forgivable behavior by a wonderful cast, in which Katherine Borowitz is calmly radiant as the company's leading lady, Christopher Walken deliriously funny as a drama critic. The direction is self-consciously sober, lending an odd, artful weight to the prevailing giddiness...