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...fact, The Deep End possesses a fairly suspenseful plot--it is billed as a "psychological thriller"--and Crutcher makes it believable by drawing upon his experiences as a therapist for abused children. He uses shock value to interest his reader, relying on the same brand of nauseating descriptions as Thomas Harris (The Silence of the Lambs...
...plot explores how the sins of the fathers are transplanted to sons and how past events recycle. Although the art that one generation deems revolutionary may seem banal to the next, the liberal themes of Ghosts shock modern audiences like liberal themes in the Victorian era shocked audiences then...
Thousands of Kuwaiti children suffered severe stress. A United Nations Children's Fund survey of those ages 5 to 13 in one neighborhood found that 62% showed signs of traumatic shock. Teenagers were disoriented by the violence. Since the war, knife fights have erupted in schools, drug use is mounting, burglaries and vandalism have increased. Near a fashionable seaside shopping mall, teenage boys on motorcycles harass girls, and others race in flashy sports cars. Some of these youths were among the 400,000 Kuwaitis who left the country during the occupation and lived a life of ease in European...
...Russia, where basic institutions like a central bank hardly work. In December, Sachs and several foreign economists met twice with Yeltsin, who told them that studies he and his advisers had made of other economic reforms from Poland to Chile had led them to conclude that nothing short of shock therapy could rescue the Russian economy...
...driving people into the & streets. Last week he called the Russian situation "politically very risky." But he says the slower approach that Yeltsin's critics advocate will only prolong the agony without providing the benefits of a market economy. Sachs notes that in cases like Bolivia and Chile, where shock policies have worked, it took about five years "to make the changes so widespread and visible that they became self-sustaining." But will the Russian people -- and their politicians -- have that much patience...