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...they just thought it was funny that a housewife from Provence should be interested." A history graduate of Cambridge, Dean has a nose for detail. The references to pop songs and TV programs sometimes have the whiff of the library about them. But the details that matter - the inner turmoil of the compromised prison officer, the mother who wants a son, not a hero - smell of real and rarer history. From all her interviews, Dean concluded that "Northern Ireland is very much like, 'You don't come from here, so you can't understand.'" At a time when political polarization...
...personality disorder--a condition characterized by explosiveness and unstable relationships--find their pain so overwhelming that they simply shut off their emotional spigot. Cutting, they find, is a way to kick-start feelings when the numbness becomes worse than the pain. Other kids say the opposite--that their emotional turmoil is so great that they need something to serve as a bleed valve to calm them down in times of crisis. "I would do it when things got me upset," says Brittany, 17, an outpatient at the Vista Del Mar clinic in west Los Angeles. "At the time...
...They are constantly reminded that they are aging." The regular reminders of fertility are replaced by the insistent signals of menopause. Anthropologists say male status is typically tied to money and power, which explains why the standard male midlife crisis is triggered by a career crack-up. Women's turmoil often reflects events in their personal lives as well as the accumulated stress of years of ladder climbing, multitasking and barrier breaking. Nearly three-quarters of women from 40 to 54 in a Yankelovich Monitor study said life is "much too complicated...
This internal turmoil has escaped notice outside of Canada’s borders. This weekend Chretien will be honored as an “International Role Model” by an American organization that works to educate against homophobia. Dan Wagner ’03-‘05, a Crimson editor who currently works for the Pennsylvania Equality Forum, which is to present the award to Chretien, praises the former leader for his “defining role in gay and lesbian civil rights.” Wagner says the Equality Forum chose Chretien to receive the award because...
...museums in London, New York, Venice and, most proudly for the artist, in his hometown of Città di Castello in the foothills of central Italy's Apennine mountain range. But today, the town of Città di Castello - and part of Italy's art establishment - is in turmoil, because a large cache of Burri's work is missing. The 15th century palazzo that houses much of his output had been expecting a shipment of 30 more Burri works, kept at the artist's country cottage in the south of France. But the works have disappeared, Time has learned. Italian...