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...form a natural, powerful chronological progression. Since the later periods were penned first, as fast-moving historical epics with little of the care for individual characters that the mature Shakespeare later lavished on the prequels, the effect is of a harrowing bleeding away of compassion. As the civil wars spiral out of control, sympathy for solitary victims gives way to a numb horror at the mounting carnage. Which, for anyone doubting the modern-day relevance of these works, is not so far from the reactions of television viewers barraged by blanket media coverage of atrocities in Bosnia or Rwanda...
Given the timing of this campaign and the stock market's recent downward spiral, students are hesitant to expect huge returns from their requests for funding. But Couch, the seasoned professional, is not overly worried...
...cattle imported from Ireland, which confirmed its first cases in County Louth north of Dublin. In Britain dozens of cases were confirmed daily and 514 cases had been certified by week's end. Farmers' gloom deepened as the government's chief scientific adviser feared that the epidemic could spiral out of control and half of Britain's livestock may have to be slaughtered. Late in the week the E.U. approved limited use of vaccination to fight the spread of the disease...
...Investors now attach so little value to China's Internet gurus that they have driven down the share price of all three homegrown portals, as well as that of Hong Kong's Chinadotcom, to below the cash value of their assets. Unable to stand the downward spiral any longer, Helen He, chief financial officer at Netease for 18 months, recently quit. "It tarnishes your spirit," says the former investment banker. Joseph Chen, one of Sohu's top guns, has left China altogether to find a new future in Plano, Texas. "Plano is one of the most exciting places...
Classic. My mind had leaped in the space of a nanosecond from a waiting room in Logan Airport to a death spiral over the Atlantic. Dr. Curtis Hsia of Boston University's Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders calls this automatic thinking. It was even worse a few hours earlier when, as part of my treatment for a debilitating case of aviophobia (fear of flying), Dr. Hsia had booked me on Exposure Airlines. It's the newest thing in phobic therapy: a virtual airplane of hardware, software and fancy head-mounted display screens that feels like the real thing...