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…idence, including clinical studies that link lack of inhibition in psychopaths to extreme violence. Also of interest is the fact that impulsive aggression is more likely to arise when individuals are drunk than sober. Alcohol, as we all know, lowers our inhibitions, but also lowe...

Mubarak in his time of need in early 2011. Their leaders expected the United States to push for Mubarak and the Egyptian military to crack down on public protests in Cairo. After all, American policymakers during the Carter administration had at least given this policy option con...

…and Michael Douglas takes seven heavily made-up and bejeweled women including Susan, Jill and me to a restaurant around the corner. Gordon Gekko hosts a hen party talking about children, schools, country houses and vacations. Back on the set Oliver is shooting the actual dinner....

Why We Wrote This Report As American citizens / tax payers, we care about the future of our country. As investors, we search for data and insights to help us make better investment decisions. (It’s easier to predict the future with a keen understanding of the past.) We found o...

this was a simple question, nearly fifteen years into the wars it was still hard to answer. There were a lot of dead terrorists. There were also a lot of new ones. As the war against terrorism had progressed in the years since 2001, it had produced at least this: a huge amount o...

BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians in Ukraine, the Maidan uprising of 2013-14, forced him to flee to Russia after a bloody crackdown failed to disperse the demonstrators. Among other things, the episode shattered the old political es...

…. Enrollment growth has been accelerating, in part, owing to more people losing employer-sponsored health insurance in the recession, and thus overall Medicaid costs jumped ~11% Y/Y from October, 2009 to June, 2010. - State governments (which unlike the federal government must...

…cribing her presentation, had written: “Paramount and its parent company, Viacom, have a vested interest in presenting the 7rek franchise as a family-oriented show. To this end, they overtly depict the characters as asexual. Yet there exists erotic subtext. This has spawned a ve...

… is associated with increased autonomic and central nervous system arousal and orienting at age 11 years: Evidence from the Mauritius Child Health Project. Psychophysiology, 38, 254-266. * Sins, slots, and omissions: Abarbanell, L., & Hauser, M.D. (2010). Mayan morality: An expl...

packets or financial vouchers. Protocols embody shared rules. Their subtle, decisive power is to place each bit of data ina reliable, predictable order, just as diplomatic protocol might seat ambassadors at a negotiation. “Protocol,” the theorists Alexander Galloway and Eugene Th...

… in line with what you’re trying to achieve over time,’” she recalls. “And I said, ‘I don’t know how you do one without the other.”” Hillary has already had some successes, most conspicuously her use of American diplomatic leverage in the U.N. Security Council to get China and e...

BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians up’ the agreement between British prime minister Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler that resulted in Germany's seizure of parts and eventually all of Czecho- slovakia. This clearly falsified the h...

designed to meet the needs of English Language Arts and Social Studies teachers in the US and internationally. ° We are eager to begin production of The Poetry of Earth, Sea, and Sky. Designed, too, for Middle and High School teachers, The Poetry of Earth, Sea, and Sky will draw...

legacy of the Iranian revolution that established a state rooted in religion. Now, nearly four decades old, the Revolutionary Guard’s rise to power remains the catalyst for Islamic sectarian division today, releasing forces of fury once confined first by Ottoman rule and then by...

That’s heresy enough for Wiesenfeld. This time, however, the counter- wave was powerful. J Street, an organization not around in 2003 that supports Israel but opposes the settlements, issued a statement calling CUNY’s action “unacceptable.” Former mayor Ed Koch, of impeccable pro...