Crisis? Maybe Heâs a Narcissistic Jerk
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Is the âmidlife crisisâ the newest excuse for poor behavior?
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Sometimes you&#39;ll hear a too-full-of-himself showbiz type pronounce in grave tones that the political situation is so desperate, he&#39;ll move to France if President Bush wins re-election.
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The intense motivations of a bizarre NBA superstar
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I'm a contrarian. It's natural. It's what happens when you're born black and male in New Orleans. You grow up questioning authority and challenging conventional wisdom. It's both a mode of survival and a disease. I have it bad. I'm addicted to argument.
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He cried when he resigned as Texas governor. He fidgets in church. He's quick to throw an aide a good-natured insult, or flash a cold stare when challenged. He spits while he's working out. When the spotlight dims and George W. Bush steps away from the lectern, he drops his guard a bit and allows rare glimpses into the man. Just offstage, the carefully disciplined public figure with the blue-blood pedigree sometimes yields to an everyman character.
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Mike Timlin doesn't have the answers. He laughs, in fact, when the question is posed to him. If he knew what could help him, he would be doing it.
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Extending the hand of friendship to a man viewed as a paranoid recluse with extreme views may seem a puzzling move. It becomes even more inexplicable when to do so could earn you the disapproval of the US, a powerful enemy.
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For the Toronto Sun. While one can&#39;t guess what the refugee board will rule, from the evidence it&#39;s hard to conclude that Jeremy Hinzman deserted from the US army for any reason other than he was scared.
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Ever since last Friday night&#39;s NBA brawl in Detroit, I have tried to make sense out of the whole mess. I have watched replay after replay of the ordeal, hoping to come up with some sort of reason
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Coercion doesnât work. Empathy is a more powerful tool than you might think. A veteran Air Force interrogator who grilled prisoners in Iraq talks about how to gather information during wartime.
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Sometimes, the two concepts can blur.
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One of The Onionâs earnest-looking everymen turns out to have a real problem.
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Making sense of nonsense Comment Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions - Catch-22â¦
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Feeling blue? Unloved? As if nobody appreciates you? Maybe no one can see your inner wonderfulness. Or maybe you deserve to be forsaken. Maybe you are unloved because you're such a jerk, simply unlovable. Maybe you're a victim of the old maxim: "If you can't say anything nice . . . "
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He is a mass of contradictions. In the jeweled circle of &quot;celebrity&quot; trainers of thoroughbred horses, he is the face at the edge of the crowd because that&#39;s as close as he wants to get to it.
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The highly regarded director has always been considered eccentric. Now he's getting mad
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Perhaps he was trying to be too fine with his pitches. Perhaps he was trying too hard to pinpoint his location. And perhaps Fausto Carmona wasn't being as aggressive as he should have been against the Red Sox in Game 2 of the American League Championship Series.