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...Business Book, "is a way to more readily sell the movie to a global audience." But that global audience is us. Studios wouldn't spend so much money making and marketing these familiar products if we weren't buying. Summer has long been our most escapist season, when we kick sand in reality's sour face and swim in the fantasy that movie magic makes so persuasive. What has changed in the past few years is that instead of escaping into novelty (that shark! that spaceship! that dinosaur!), we now flee to the familiar. Perhaps it's because the repetition...
...reasons: to feel less or to feel more. Some kids suffering from such problems as anxiety, depression or borderline-personality disorder--a condition characterized by explosiveness and unstable relationships--find their pain so overwhelming that they simply shut off their emotional spigot. Cutting, they find, is a way to kick-start feelings when the numbness becomes worse than the pain. Other kids say the opposite--that their emotional turmoil is so great that they need something to serve as a bleed valve to calm them down in times of crisis. "I would do it when things got me upset," says...
...cutting are a mystery, but several theories have been put forward. When the body is injured, it releases natural opiates that help dull pain--a process that is behind the fabled runner's high. Cutting inflicts a very real injury, and self-mutilators may be seeking the neurochemical kick that follows. "When I would cut myself deliberately, I didn't even feel it," says Emily, 16, who is in her third week of treatment at Two Brattle Center. "But if I got a paper cut I didn't want, that would hurt...
...question, Kerkorian still gets a kick out of high-stakes deals. In 2000 his MGM Grand bought Steve Wynn's Mirage Resorts for $6.4 billion, and last June Kerkorian snapped up the Mandalay Resort Group for $4.8 billion, giving him control of 11 hotel-casinos on the Strip and more than half the gambling action. Last year Kerkorian sold his stake in the MGM movie studio for $5 billion to a consortium led by Sony. In fact, Kerkorian's dalliance with MGM over the years reads like a sordid back-lot love story. He first bought shares in the studio...
University fundraisers say Harvard will publicly kick off the campaign in the next two or three years...