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...does this kind of thing a lot and that it is part of his "work on behalf of the character," but some directors have complained about his free-lancing. "On A Beautiful Mind he was intensely adamant about expressing himself and trying his ideas, and if you tried to squelch them he'd resent the hell out of it," says Howard, who will work with Crowe again on next year's The Cinderella Man, a boxing movie. "But early on he said something like, 'Look, don't get caught in my vortex of darkness. I am moody...
...rest and rearm. According to a senior military official, Hamas has spent the past six weeks planning attacks, stockpiling explosives and improving the range of its rockets. Despite the battering they have given the Palestinian security infrastructure over the past year, Israeli officials insist Dahlan has enough strength to squelch those preparations. "The question," says the intelligence officer, "is if he also has the motivation...
...mean that they were unprepared. As one soldier said, "We trained for urban combat, for a possible street fight in Baghdad. That same training works just as well in An Najaf." It also worked fine in Karbala and Hilla, two other cities where the 101st had to squelch strong paramilitary resistance, which had not been in the original plan...
...conditions. More immediate results can be gained through cognitive and behavioral therapy, which teach coping skills. A new treatment known as dialectical behavior therapy, developed by clinical psychologist Marsha Linehan of the University of Washington, can teach borderlines to recognize the situations that trigger explosive feelings, helping them squelch a reaction before it erupts. "The first thing we teach is to get control of the behavior," says Linehan. "After that, we work on feeling better...
Arguments that support abortion rights take as a given that a fetus is not a person. HRL takes the opposite position. While our opponents find a fetus’ lack of personhood obvious and try to squelch debate on the topic by focusing exclusively on the rights of a mother, we think fetal personhood is a question that needs to be carefully examined by voters (the target audience for the postering campaign) in order for them to make an informed voting decision. Consideration of fetal personhood is also important to any woman considering aborting a fetus. Our posters seek...