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		<title>Through A Glass Darkly: A Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 11:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ali H</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Through a Glass Darkly opened at the Almedia theatre this month, the only adaptation of the film ever approved by Bergman for the stage. Bergman himself was famously unhappy with the original, calling it 'a desperate attempt to present a simple philosophy: God is love and love is God.' But Worton adeptly shows that there is far more substance in the script than its urge to impose certainty.

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		<title>Irregular Army: The rise of mental illness in the US military</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Kennard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Army’s top mental health expert, Col. Elspeth Ritchie, does not mince his words when discussing why the US military has taken such a disturbing attitude to mental illness. “The challenge for us,” he said, “is that the Army has a mission to fight. And, as you know, recruiting has been a challenge. And so we have to weigh the needs of the mission, with the soldiers’ personal needs.”

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