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...about two years. In the first wave of passion, the limerent thinks of the LO about 30% of the time, but in the second wave, which hits some months later, it can rise to 100%. The poor limerent is so hooked that nothing matters except the beloved, and feelings swoop between ecstasy and pain. This can be a drawback. You spend much of your time writing letters or diaries; you can't get your work done; all your friends decide you are a bore (mostly because you are). Limerence can strike at almost any age, and men seem...
Holsti's view is seconded by most experts. They feel that the Kremlin carefully calculated the risks before giving the orders for its troops to swoop into Afghanistan. Though it could easily anticipate diplomatic friction with Washington, it could also believe that there was almost no danger of U.S. or other Western military opposition to the move. Says Huntington: "Moscow saw an opportunity. We were distracted in Iran as we were distracted in the Middle East in 1956 when the Soviets made their move on Hungary. This is their way of doing things...
...from the Khmer Rouge will customarily abolish the communal kitchens and other vestiges of Pol Pot's extremist brand of Communism and allow the citizens to elect their own leaders. The Vietnamese then move on to other villages, leaving the inhabitants defenseless against the revenge of Khmer Rouge who swoop down at night, reinstitute the communal kitchens, seize what food is available, and kill the elected leaders...
...cult sounds like a cross between the Book of Revelation and Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End. It was born in 1975 when a distinguished-looking couple held a series of West Coast meetings to announce that a spaceship would soon arrive to swoop up properly trained apostles into the "next level" of existence. The pair called themselves only "Bo and Peep" or-because of their claim to be the "two witnesses" of the End Times in Revelation II-"The Two." With end-of-the-millennium enthusiasm, as many as 200 people forsook jobs and possessions, even...
...clutches his chest and falls to the floor, as if from a stroke. Bystanders do nothing as two men swoop down and begin to pick the victim's pockets. From the shadows, three subway cops lunge at the thieves, shouting "iNo se muevan!" (Spanish for "Don't move...