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...merely the best of what Sony has. Then there's Hill's approach. Musically, it's just her strumming an acoustic guitar; thematically, she's equally alone. "Every single one of these songs is about me first," she says defiantly during one of Unplugged's many spoken interludes. Any songwriter worth listening to writes from personal experience, but most also write to reach out. Here Hill seems intent only on purging...
Autism was first described in 1943 by Johns Hopkins psychiatrist Leo Kanner, and again in 1944 by Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger. Kanner applied the term to children who were socially withdrawn and preoccupied with routine, who struggled to acquire spoken language yet often possessed intellectual gifts that ruled out a diagnosis of mental retardation. Asperger applied the term to children who were socially maladroit, developed bizarre obsessions and yet were highly verbal and seemingly quite bright. There was a striking tendency, Asperger noted, for the disorder to run in families, sometimes passing directly from father to son. Clues that genes...
...Dawood has, at various times, spoken voluntarily about returning to India if he can get a fair trial, or escape the death penalty. A don's life in a Bombay prison might be preferable to a life, however opulent, in a country toward which he feels no attachment and in which he lives in a state of constant fear. It was said of Sadat Hasan Manto, the great Urdu writer, that he started dying the moment he left Bombay for Pakistan; the same may be true for Dawood and Chotta...
Since September, Faust has spoken to a range of student groups—from the WLP to the women’s basketball team...
...abuse scandal in the Catholic Church has wreaked spiritual havoc on the faithful - and their leaders. Bishop Wilton Gregory hopes to help repair that damage. Thursday, as America's Catholic cardinals left Rome, relief hung thick in the air: at last, activity would replace passivity. The unspeakable had been spoken, and the Pope himself had called the abuse "a crime." Now, when the press asks questions about the heinous crimes of priests, at least the country's cardinals and bishops will be able to acknowledge the problem, and remind parishioners that a solution is being worked...