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...Much of the way we train lawyers to think about their jobs encourages a kind of hyper-adversarial view of their jobs," he says. "Harvard is steeped in the tradition of the legal profession which emphasizes loyalty to the client above all other values...
...think we've shown the extent to which a multidisciplinary discipline is really forming," said program organizer Mark S. Cohen, technical director of clinical magnetic resonance imaging and director of hyper-scan imaging at MGH. "It was an opportunity for people to think about how all of these things link together...
...Hunter's World magazine. Pam is miscast not only in her career but also as a sex object and surrogate mom of Abdhul, a stray who looks like a child but talks like a grownup. The plot? Forget about it. The characters? Instantly forgettable. It's Janowitz's hyper-real prose servicing a cartoon vision that still marks her as a talent in search of an adequate subject...
...maliciousness grows increasingly appealing, image has grown increasingly important. Public figures don't necessarily have to be attractive--observe Ross Perot--but they do need charisma. And their every move is subject to hyper-examination. Back in the 1960 Presidential debates, Richard M. Nixon drew scorn for his sweat and his misapplied TV makeup. today, pundits overanalyze Barbara Bush's faux pearls. It's all part of the same game: looks first and substance later, if ever...
...doses, it triggers anxiety. When Philip Gold, chief of the clinical neuroendocrinology branch of the NIMH, began looking for the hormone in his depressed patients, he found it was not only elevated, but elevated all the time -- even during sleep. What looked like depression was really a state of hyper-arousal, a kind of permanent flight-or-fight response. "In melancholia," explains Gold, "CRH gets stuck...