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The article offers information on the recent gubernatorial election in Mississippi, where voters re-elected Republican Tate Reeves despite economic challenges in the state. Topics include Mississippi's historical poverty rates, the incumbent governor's controversies, and the Democratic challenger, Brandon Presley, an economic populist.

LVIV, Ukraine -- Taras Demlan was out for a quiet drink with friends in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, a beguiling jewel of Hapsburg architectural splendor, and his companions [...]

The article reports role of Alabama University Head Coach Nick Saban in the team's victory in the National Championship, as of January 2018. It states Saban as an extremely demanding boss of unpaid players who makes a significant amount of annual salary, and mentions that Saban's inability to enjoy his success as a normal person is supposed to be associated with the masochism in his personality. It cites performance of players like DeVonta Smith.

The article presents questions and answers related to love and interpersonal relationships, including one about romantic and sexual relationships, another one about masochism, and one about sexual aggressiveness.

MY DAUGHTER is only ten, and already she knows how to use a curling wand. Admittedly, she does this under strict adult supervision (i.e. me sitting on the edge of the bed yelling: 'No, no, too hot, too hot!'); nevertheless, she is growing up in a world of hi-tech beauty gadgetry, where every grooming need has an electronic solution. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The author argues on the attitudes of Republicans toward sequestration that could be considered as masochism.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "Germany's Political Masochism," by Anna Sauerbrey in the February 13, 2013 issue.

The article presents questions and answers related to sex, including the annual gay leather/fetish/Bondage Domination Sadism Masochism (BDSM) street fair in San Francisco, California, the use of butt plug by the boyfriend and an observation by a prostitute.

MASERU, Lesotho GENERATIONS of Americans have learned to pity Africa. It's mainly seen as a quagmire of famine and genocide, a destination only for a sybaritic safari or a masochistic aid mission. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Each of the 2.5 million annual deaths in the United States directly affects four other people, on average. For most of these people, the suffering is finite -- painful and lasting, of course, but not so disabling that 2 or 20 years later the person can barely get out of bed in the morning. For some people, however -- an estimated 15 percent of the bereaved population, or more than a million people a year -- grieving becomes what Dr. M. Katherine Shear, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia, calls ''a loop of suffering.'' And these people, Dr. Shear added, can barely function. ''It takes a person away from humanity,'' she said of their suffering, ''and has no redemptive value.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Life is a puzzle without a solution, a series of bleak, frustrating moments shadowed by the guaranteed absurdity of death. This, more or less, is the lesson -- or perhaps the premise -- of ''You, the Living,'' the new film by the Swedish director Roy Andersson. The film is slow, rigorously morose and often painful in its blunt reckoning of disappointment and failure. It is also extremely funny. And not always in an edge-of-the-grave, morbid way. At first, or on a preliminary viewing (gourmand of masochism that I am, I've seen it twice), the friendly affirmation of the title seems ironic, almost to the point of cruelty. (It also echoes the name of Ayn Rand's first novel, ''We the Living.'') ''You'' -- that is, We, sitting meekly in the audience, anxious mirror images of the sad characters on screen -- are mired in misery and confusion and might as well give up. But then the irony redoubles and reverses, and by the end the generosity of Mr. Andersson's vision is apparent. It becomes clear that we have been watching a deadpan but nonetheless heartfelt affirmation of human existence, which may be fragile and pointless but is still worth something. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents information related to prevailing violent conditions in Iraq as a result of a civil war. Iraq has warlord structures that caused mass murder in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Sierra Leone. Iraqi minds have already been covered by the experiences of trauma and extreme stress. Iraq already is suffering from the psychological conditions that have exploded the great bloodbaths of recent years.

The article presents views from an emotional masochist on the enhancement of emotional awareness to increase sexual satisfaction in the U.S. An emotional masochist likes to go in places lower than what is perceived as possible for most people. In addition, the author presented the relation between joy and despair in the masochist perspective.

Analyzes the behavior of leftists radicals who support the war on terror. Appeal in leaving the depression and masochism endemic with the left wing party; Role of the war on terrorism as a window to build progressivism; Satisfaction in kicking down masochists; Appeal of being taken seriously through the declaration of independence from left wing orthodoxies; Revelation of the neohawk's denial through their contempt for the doves.

Deals with discussions on masochism during the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association in December 2000.

The article reports on the conclusion of psychologist Roy F. Baumeister that masochism is not necessarily a symptom of psychopathology, but merely one of the many means by which normally functioning individuals escape the pressures of selfhood. Baumeister cites several ways by which masochistic sexual practices may temporarily ease a person's emotional and mental burdens. Contrary to common assumptions, most masochists probably do not want to suffer harm, because the doses of pain are carefully limited. Nor does masochistic sex necessarily re-enact or endorse genuine oppression, Baumeister adds.