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...McCarley: "One of the things that hampered psychiatrists has been the difficulty of finding an appropriate animal model for depression and schizophrenia, and it looks like ours is an important model for learning how depressions come about. That is very exciting." Added Hobson: "All you need to do is alter the balance between naturally occurring substances, and the mind goes bananas...
Almost everyone who creates a fictional world as rich as Lucas' identifies with one or more of his characters. In Star Wars there was a lot of Lucas in Luke, the wide-eyed farmboy who was always yearning for bigger things. In The Empire Yoda is his alter ego. Yoda's speeches might almost be called The Wit and Wisdom of George Lucas. Like Yoda, Lucas is a devout believer in the Force. Says Lucas: "When you are born, you have an energy field around you. You could call it an aura. An archaic description would...
...film rights to his book for 15 years until he decided he had met, finally, the right man to direct Oskar's story. Schlondorff (whose past films include Young Torless and The Lost Honor of Katherin Blum) asked sharp questions, Grass noted, and made no plans to significantly alter his book for the screen...
When future seminars address themselves to Sidney Hook's work, the correct response will require only one word change: Any year, please. As these 21 feisty essays demonstrate, over the past four decades the teacher-philosopher has seen no reason to alter his course. He did not need Alexander Solzhenitsyn to inform him of the Gulag; back in the '30s Hook condemned the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, nations whose politics employed "vicious ersatz theologies." The Supreme Court's pendulum decisions on criminal justice have found Hook unchanged; he has long advocated the rights of the victim...
...GOAL OF adding a majority of "independent" members to corporate boards of directors is to establish an alter-ego for management. At least nine board members would be assigned specific "constituencies," (employee well-being, consumer protection, environmental protection, community relations, shareholder rights, law compliance, technology assessment, anti-trust standards and political relations) and would oversee and inform the board about issues relevant to their fields. The result, at the very least, would be to sensitize management to community issues and interests and raise questions about corporation policies...