Ms. SUSAN MEDAK (Director, Berkeley Repertory Theatre): There was none of that public self-analysis, none of that public scrutiny that we now go through over every major crisis that helps us, as a culture, define the meaning of an experience, to define the meaning of a tragedy.

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The splashy identity-issue photographs that Asya makes vaguely resemble the film itself, which conveys none of the self-mocking suggested by the title.

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Sadly for self-indulgent humans, none of this affects the basic message about staying healthy, which remains to eat less and exercise more.

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Mastering self-control is a big enough challenge, none of us should feel like we have to do it on our own.

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Despite his self-styled affinity with Tony Blair, Mr Cameron has none of the former prime minister's messianic zeal.

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Only a few authors (so far) have been definitively found out, and none of them have really lost anything, except for a bit of self-respect and for some that appears to be expendable anyway.

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None of this, however, is likely to shake China's tendency to equate food security with self-sufficiency.

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The fight against corruption is also out of puff: it was made clear this week that self-exiled Bettino Craxi, a former prime minister hitherto wanted on several charges, would face none if he came home.

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