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...choose the right Capra. I wanted to tune in on an old American wavelength. A Capra resonance, an atmosphere, seemed to have returned off and on during the fall. It suggested some earlier American self-image, a kind of innocence arising from vulnerability and loss: post-traumatic sweetness. (The trauma in Capra's case, of course, was the stock-market crash and the Great Depression.) Had we renewed our citizenship, for a little while, in Frank Capra's America...
...Maybe it takes a survivor of cancer, the private pitiless terror, to minister to a city that discovers in a single moment that every moment counts, that everything you were certain of can change in an instant. We knew that he was a tough man. It took the trauma for us to discover the tenderness, the offscreen, backstage, lowlight kindness he showed to widow after widow, child after child. A man considered incapable of empathy, who could scarcely mutter a word of condolence to the mother of an unarmed man his police force had shot 41 times, somehow knew what...
...whenever my Pisces reading is stupid (about 80 percent of the time) I simply skip ahead to another that I like more (usually Sagittarius) and claim it as my own. Though I will have forgotten the advice by the time I get to the next article, ad, or embarrassing trauma-rama of the week, I still go through the ritual of reading them until I find one that almost, kind of fits. And since they are all unspecific to a fault and don’t mean anything in my non-Glamour-reading life, I know...
...meanwhile, is soaring. A nurse at Jalalabad's hospital says the number of gunshot victims has risen sharply since the Taliban left. That the hospital functions at all is a tribute to its staff: nobody has been paid in six months. Among the eight patients in one of the trauma wards are an 18-year-old whose face was crushed when a U.S. bomb destroyed his house, a 10-year-old boy shot by a stray bullet and an angry shepherd named Khan. He says that when he was tending his sheep last week, 25 armed men working for another...
Additionally, Moore was on the forefront of researching the effects of trauma on the body, whether the trauma was in the form of elective surgery, a car accident or severe burns...