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...which he has carried himself droops in defeat. Jean's belief in his ownership of Gabrielle was the foundation of his comfortable view of life, his complacency and, as he perhaps now realizes, his self-deception. (Which makes the viewer question the acuity of his observations about friends and status...
...Jean was devastated by her departure, he is disappointed at her return. "You, who always know the right thing to do, but here you come back, the ink still fresh." His feelings, such as he has, often take second place to his status. Now he considers how he will look to the friends whose esteem he has courted. "If at least you had died," he tells her, "I would have been offered condolences and known how to reply. But no, you come back." His eloquence revs into fury: "My wife's a monster, and everyone will think me a fool...
...like Egypt and Jordan appear unable to ease the plight of the Palestinians, and Hizballah may be helping its main sponsor, Iran, burnish its claims to be standing up to Israel and the U.S. on behalf of the whole region. The movement gained a kind of pan-Arab hero status in 2000, when Israel quit Lebanon and Hizballah was acclaimed as the only Arab army ever to have forced an Israeli retreat. It had become a role model and tutor to Palestinian radical groups such as Hamas, which sought to emulate not only Hizballah's art of combining welfare work...
...people had the most negative attitudes about them; the most positive views were held by nurses who managed to avoid spending any time with the elderly patients. Brewer's data seem to suggest that even within the subprofession of caring for the old, the higher the nurses' status the less time they spend with their patients. Nursing schools, Brower says, are not doing enough to prepare their graduates for the graying of America. ?By John Leo. Reported by Patricia Delaney/Chicago, with other U.S. bureaus
...Though opinion polls show most of France ready to forgive Zidane the transgression in deference to his more heroic profile both on and off the pitch, some pundits are bound to insist Zidane's final on-field act will forever compromise what would have been a legendary status. Earlier media analyses of what had preceded the bust-up depicted Materazzi's comments as Islamophobic or racist in nature - with one suggesting the Italian had called Zidane a "(expletive) Arab, Muslim terrorist...