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...psychological phenomenon of overcompensation is well understood in the realm of psychiatry. Humans often attempt to negate what they perceive as unwanted personal traits by exaggerating their opposite. Talk a guy into feeling emasculated, and he’ll likely respond with hyperbolic fits of macho behavior. He might effuse hostility that wasn’t there before, show symptoms of homophobia, start using excessive profanity, or maybe stand up straighter—a pathetic exhibit, and only to prove to himself and the world that he is, indeed, a manly...
...been magnanimous in offering one. He intended no offense to anyone, and I applaud his statesmanlike response to the outcry. I appeal to my Muslim brothers that, instead of impulsive and irrational reactions, they should offer to debate the issues that cause them hurt. A religion is understood by others as its followers in real life practice it. Amrik S. Gill Mohali, India Terms of War "The face of Haditha" [sept. 25] inappropriately asserted that what happened in Haditha, Iraq, on Nov. 19, 2005, was a "notorious massacre." Although two dozen civilians may have been killed in a wartime firefight...
...they? Picasso's innovations, which were largely in the realm of space and form, hardly apply to things like installation work, conceptual art or videos, the practices that so many artists are caught up in now. But it's also because Picasso's great discoveries have become the universally understood possibilities of the canvas. Artists long ago stopped thinking of themselves as operating in space that Picasso made possible. So did the rest of us. It's just space, like something God made. Picasso, who liked to see himself as the ultimate creator, would have been fine with that...
...invited local musicians to record with it. The result: a rich collection that embraces the clash of dissonant cultures. The thumping Revu Rockers deftly weaves blaring trumpets with a solid house beat into a hybrid that is greater than the sum of its parts. If only our politicians understood border crossing half as well...
...that his knowledge of even that much came from a fleeting conversation on the House floor. But shouldn't someone have got chills at learning that a 52-year-old man had sent a teenager a creepy e-mail asking for a "pic of you"? Certainly the page understood what the e-mail meant, which is why he forwarded it in August 2005 to the office of Louisiana Congressman Rodney Alexander, who had sponsored him for the page program and who was alarmed enough to take his concern to Boehner. "This freaked me out," the teenager wrote. "Sick sick sick...