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...Senate is the enemy. That tension has grown in the past year as House Democrats have cast a series of politically treacherous votes on such issues as health care and climate change, only to be left exposed as the measures have been shredded or buried altogether in the procedural thicket of the Senate. So it's no surprise that the inclination of House Democrats toward this most perilous vote of all has been to tell the Senate: You go first...
...remake (Cape Fear). Even The Departed is an American version of a Hong Kong cop movie. Now Scorsese has taken on psychological horror, adding a filigree of frissons from Stanley Kubrick's The Shining and Val Lewton's artful B movies of the 1940s to Lehane's already dense thicket of chills and tricks. (See the top 10 Oscar-nomination snubs...
...lying low” and warding off the cruelty of lovers. Yet the protagonist and Clara, caught in their self-involved and unspectacular web of emotions, are too banal for Aciman’s trick to work, and the protagonist’s dense, slogging thoughts form a thicket of angst that paralyses the narrative. He despairingly thinks, “It occurred to me that rehearsing loss to dull the loss might bring about the very loss I was hoping to avert.” This constant act of stagnant, empty rehearsal is emblematic of the psychological development...
Perhaps what's most important to remember amid the thicket of memory games, iPhone apps and other newfangled gadgetry is to just do something - preferably something novel - that engages your brain. Oh, and make sure you enjoy it too. "If you hate going to the gym," notes Bill Thies, chief medical officer for the Alzheimer's Association, "you're not going to go there on a regular basis...
...When a statute admits two constructions, one of which requires a decision on a hard question of constitutional law, it has long been our practice to prefer the alternative," Kozinski wrote in the January order. "The discussion above illustrates the constitutional thicket into which the discriminatory construction drags us. I therefore construe the Federal Employee Health Benefits Act to permit the coverage of same-sex spouses." (See more about gay rights...