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Mohammed Bouyeri's trial for shooting, stabbing and almost beheading Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh seemed a mere formality. The prosecutor's case was watertight and Bouyeri had instructed his lawyer not to act in his defense at last week's trial. These expectations were overturned when Bouyeri, 27, a...
One answer to that question is a paradox about history. In order to appreciate Lincoln's significance for our time, we have to humble ourselves to an understanding of his time and how he lived. Previous works on Lincoln's psychology have tried to force his melancholy into the mold...
The question, however, is far from easy to answer. Since Marx died in 1883, his admirers have written innumerable explanations of his work. They have frequently, and often fanatically, denounced one another as revisionists or worse. But Bertell Ollman, a professor at New York University and an avowed Marxist, observes...
Ophthalmologists offer several possible explanations for the extended-wear problems. The lenses can be worn for weeks because they contain many more tiny pores than traditional soft lenses, allowing an increased supply of oxygen and water to reach and nourish the cornea. But the myriad pores encourage the buildup of...
Last week Manes' political saga came to an abrupt end. He was in the kitchen of his Tudor-style home in tony Jamaica Estates, talking on the telephone with his psychiatrist about committing himself to a mental hospital. Increasingly despondent, the 52-year-old politician suddenly began rummaging through a...