Word: hurts
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...Johns Hopkins medical school. "It's a label masquerading as an explanation." Others wonder whether the term is simply a catchall psychological description for people who are habitual criminals. Yet proponents argue that the disorder's core ingredients--a lifelong pattern of behavior, a willingness to break rules and hurt others, a lack of empathy or guilt--set certain criminals apart. "Empathy is what stops you and me from doing horrible things," says Black. "Every disorder has been criticized for being too broad. But the description of ASP hasn't fundamentally changed since...
...Watkins, whom Kennedy has named as the gunman. And a homeowner in the neighborhood where the wounded woman stopped her car says he overheard Adams telling the police that her "boyfriend" had shot her. "Her composure and ability to talk with us were amazing considering the way she was hurt," says police spokesman Keith Bridges. But could Carruth possibly have been capable of what some speculate was a crime of the coldest calculus--murder to avoid paying child support? Surely his weekly salary of $38,000 could cover that expense in addition to the $3,500 a month...
...separated a rib while swinging a golf club for yet another role, as a World War I veteran who finds enlightenment through his caddy in The Legend of Bagger Vance, which is being directed by Robert Redford. "Matt seems to work on a process of 'If it doesn't hurt, it can't be right,'" says Minghella. Damon shrugs off the compliment. "I just don't think there's an excuse for not working as hard as you can," he says...
...picking 14 teams in my Fantasy Football League this weekend--I have the proof. Just as in sports, youth matters. As of last Friday, my 23-year-old associate Matt is up 26.1% to my 19%, helped by a 50% jump in his Internet Capital Group. I'm being hurt by AskJeeves, down 17% since I picked it. Ah, but there is good news. In the real world we own them both. And Internet Capital Group has more than made up for the Jeeves shortfall...
...moves large numbers of characters back and forth in time as it proceeds, in its leisurely way, to solve the murder mystery that serves as its none-too-robust pacemaker. Readers in the millions took the book seriously because Guterson was so serious about it, though it did not hurt that his setting--an island in Puget Sound, before, during and immediately after World War II--was fresh and exotic...