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...Behavior Are there people who court injury? Feminists and psychiatrists debate the wisdom of listing masochism as an official disorder...
...these good women resolve their anguish The Official Story wisely does not state. There is no Solomonic wisdom applicable to this situation. In any event, the film's business is not to unwind a plot but to frame a parable about the individual's relationship to totalitarianism. And that is subtly written on the lovely face of Aleandro as she descends from serenity and self-possession to a final, harrowing acknowledgment that her privileged life was based on willed blindness, that her future is as an emotional desaparecido. Hers is a performance that one knows will not be forgotten, much...
...energy costs by $455 million, helping bump its 2004 earnings to $313 million. According to Vaughn Cordle of Airline Forecasts, oil would have to shoot past an average of $65.30 per bbl. this year to affect Southwest's bottom line--not a likely scenario. "You have to have foresight, wisdom and some courage to hedge," says Tammy Romo, Southwest's treasurer...
...simple," President George W. Bush said last week, of his continuing determination to pass Social Security reform. "Explain the problem to the American people, and keep explaining it and explaining it." There was defiance but also a certain frustration in his voice as he said this. The Gods of Wisdom in Washington have determined that Bush is in a trough. His poll numbers are declining. His approval rating is back where it was-in the mid-40s-before it was artificially inflated during the 2004 campaign by the dread prospect that John Kerry might replace him. Social Security reform...
...Most of this is nonsense. The Gods of Wisdom are bored. They are suffering fight-deprivation syndrome. The big spring battle in the Senate over filibuster rules and judicial appointments was resolved through compromise; Social Security has been talked to death; and the insipid Democrats have refused to confront the President on issues that actually matter, like the need for a comprehensive health-insurance overhaul or the absence of a coherent strategy in Iraq. The titillation of the trivial-the tendency to rate the presidency solely on the polling and politics of the moment-means that Bush has largely escaped...