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...Despite the many verbal blows Ceccaldi lands in the book - some below the belt, many studded with expletives - it's probably unwise to expect Houellebecq to accept her terms to a truce. Her account of her earlier life as a wandering, post-war version of a New Age-ist doesn't really differ from Houellebecq's variant of how and why Ceccaldi left him with his grandmother. Where they differ most is in analyzing the consequences of her decision...
...female role in Iraqi society. "Do not become a prisoner," Salbi remembers her mother telling her over and over again. "Marry for love. Don't learn to clean and cook, because then that is all you will ever do." But when Salbi turned 20, her mother insisted that she accept a marriage proposal from an Iraqi man living in the U.S. Salbi was bewildered and furious but did as she was told. She arrived in the U.S. in 1990 and was quickly married. Just over a month later, in August, Saddam invaded Kuwait, severing Salbi's communication with her parents...
That shock proved to be a wake-up call. Turkey was compelled, as a result, to accept World Bank and International Monetary Fund prescriptions, including fiscal discipline and regulatory changes, that have since paid off handsomely, triggering five years of more than 6% annual growth, single-digit inflation and rising incomes...
Carter came away from his mid-April meetings with some apparent progress. Hamas leaders told him they'd accept a peace deal that included an Israeli state if Palestinians approved it in a referendum. But, as President Bush said Tuesday, "they say one thing and do another." In fact, America's diplomats are as worried about what Hamas will do in coming weeks as they were about the meeting with Carter last month...
...Weil, "is not the secret itself, but the act of conscious deception in a relationship." Weil, a psychologist in New York City with 30 years of experience counseling troubled couples, takes an uncompromising position: "There's no such thing as an innocent financial fib." Even if you don't accept her zero-tolerance approach--Weil frowns on even the surreptitious picking of your partner's clothing pockets or wallet for extra cash--financial faithlessness may be more widespread than you think. According to a recent Harris poll, 40% of all adults in a committed relationship admitted to lying to their...