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Defending the Caveman is funny, endearing and thoughtful. Everyone who sees it should bring along his or her significant other and realize that he or she is not alone in wondering "why the hell 'they' do that." "That" can refer to anything from burping in public or trying on five seemingly identical outfits. Couples often don't realize that miscommunication and disappointment are common to everyone. Becker makes them laugh at themselves--a feat that is truly remarkable and worth more than 30 dollars...
...thermonuclear exchange ? or, as they euphemistically put it, "general war." Sample extract: "There's bound to be a reprisal from the Soviet Union," says Kennedy. "Going in and taking Berlin by force. Which leaves me only one alternative, which is to fire nuclear weapons, which is a hell of an alternative...
...aware of the fact that mental illness is far from rare among any population; and if Harvard is exceptional, then it is because mental illness is more prevalent here than among the general public, not less. What frightens me most of all is that even in light of the hell I have walked through, I've learned that, in many ways, I've been relatively lucky...
...everyone would go so far as spiritual explorer Alan Watts, who once credited Buddhism with enabling him to "get out from under the monstrously oppressive God the Father." But the absence of that ultimate authority figure--and the corresponding decoupling of the notion of compassion from a terror of hell or guilt before an Almighty--was attractive. Likewise, although it contradicted the Christian notion of an individual soul, Buddhism's idea of universal interconnectedness--that, as Kerouac wrote, "there is no separation in any of it"--appealed to the Beats, as it would in a few years to the flower...
...does not look likely to be granted. For even in the unlikely event of the trial's location being resolved, Gaddhafi is asking the impossible with a further demand that the U.S. hand over six airmen involved in the 1986 air-strike on Tripoli. "Otherwise," fumed the colonel, "to hell with them." Which leaves the Lockerbie relatives exactly where they were nine years ago: struggling with a lot of unresolved questions...