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...bereavement services for Hospice of Visiting Nurse Service of New York. "There's little left unsaid, so there's no confusion about what someone would have wanted or hoped for the surviving spouse." Also, it's often easier for widows and widowers with good social skills to seek and accept help from friends, work or church colleagues, adult kids or even a professional therapist--a critical component as the bereaved moves from grief to a new identity as a single person...
...process along these lines, and his associates say that Baker would be willing to help implement it as a special envoy if the President offers him enough authority. That might be resisted by Elliott Abrams, the National Security Council staffer who coordinates Middle East policy, and Baker would not accept the job unless this is resolved. But Condoleezza Rice, who has pushed for a comprehensive diplomatic approach to the region, might be supportive, even enthusiastic. She knows that the Administration needs to salvage a foreign policy legacy beyond the botched war in Iraq...
...could accept that President Bush is, as you put it on the cover, "faltering in Iraq," "out of favor with his own party" and "increasingly isolated." But to refer to "the world he's created" was just too much. The present state of affairs was created by the terrorists of 9/11, not the President. George R. Ours Petersburg, West Virginia...
...serious critics then, and to the mass audience now, sentiment is suspect. Feeling is mushy, girly - for fools. To be soft-hearted is to be soft-headed. So critics will see a horror film with extreme violence, or (less frequently) an erotic film with extreme sex, and accept these as genre conventions, whether or not they're grossed out or aroused. But a movie that tries to make them feel is somehow pandering to their basest or noblest emotions and, as they see it, deserves a spanking from any smart reviewer. These days, nothing is as easy to deride...
...firm had lost her paperwork. She complained that Kirkland forced her into the arrangement with Collegeboxes. “We didn’t have any choice in the matter,” she said. According to Kowitt, the problems were due to clerical errors, and the company will accept all claims electronically in 2007. “It’s no fault but our own. We take 100 percent responsibility for it,” Kowitt said. —Staff writer Katherine M. Gray can be reached at kmgray@fas.harvard.edu...