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...lawless tribal areas along its border with Afghanistan, some places are less wild than others. The Mohmand Agency, just a half-hour drive from the city of Peshawar, had long been known as the calmest and most moderate in the region and over the past few years managed to avoid the Talibanization and violence of its neighbors. It was rare to see people in public carrying guns. Women don't wear veils when they do their daily chores outside their homes or visit neighbors. There were only a handful of seminaries. And it was difficult to find anti-American graffiti...
...second objection would be to the film's pace. There were long stretches when stuff just didn't happen. Antonioni had an answer for that too: "In certain moments, life has different rhythms. At times it's dynamic, at other times static. So why should we avoid the static moments to concern ourselves only with the dynamic ones? If a film is to take account of reality... it must also consider the rhythm of this reality." In other words, he was just being a realist. Or a neo-neo-realist...
...MATTER HOW OR WHEN THE DISORDER hits, the first step in striking back is usually comparatively short-term behavioral therapy, using a technique known as exposure and response prevention (ERP), in which OCD sufferers don't try to avoid their particular source of anxiety but actually seek it out. Eventually, emotional nerve endings grow desensitized to the stimulus. The point is to tough it out until that happens...
This measured approach may help Chinese firms avoid the disaster that befell many Japanese companies when they went on their foreign-spending spree in the late 1980s. The Japanese not only met xenophobic public opposition in the U.S. but also in several instances vastly overpaid for glamorous properties, like Rockefeller Center. "I don't expect China to go in for trophy properties," says JPMorgan's Ulrich. "They know the lesson of the Japanese debacle." That said, she concedes, the odds are that Chinese companies will make mistakes of their own, given the sheer volume of deals to come. "This...
...Congress finally considered some modest reforms this year, but ultimately watered them down; the reviews aren't really independent, and the Corps can avoid them or ignore them. But the bill does revive the scandalous lock expansions - except they're now up to $2 billion. Senator Christopher Bond of Missouri wants them, and the Corps figured out a new way to approve them, so they're good to go unless Bush can stop them...