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...commitment to humanist and democratic values, Merkel has declared herself willing to pursue policies that could cost her country dearly. Germany is Iran's largest trading partner in Europe, and many German businesses oppose any restrictions on trade with the country. But she has recently suggested that she would back new sanctions if the government in Tehran does not curtail its nuclear ambitions. In the past, U.S. officials doubted whether Germany's actions on Iran would match its tough words, but they seem to have confidence that Merkel means what she says. "When it comes to crunch time" on Iran...
Year-end lists and new year's resolutions are as easy to mock as they are to make. But in uncertain times, reviewing and previewing are serious business. They let us imagine we can impose some order on the fresh calendar page - marking holidays, graduations, movie premieres, tax-free back-to-school shopping week - even as we wait to see which days, now anonymous or devoted to watching groundhogs, will be raised from obscurity to eternity in the history books...
...aspiring pundit cum politician should always have something to fall back on. Dobbs still has his radio show. Palin has her royalties. And Beck calls his political movement the Plan--which also happens to be the title of a book he's publishing in August, when he'll hold an unveiling rally for the Plan in Washington. It may finally be better to be kingmaker than king (or queen). It certainly pays better...
...touch the carton. It took a lot of effort, but I did it. The creature wanted to touch the milk, but if I tried, I could stop it. When I did, the fear went away. I practiced that - letting the creature reach for something, making it stop, making it back away. The better I got at controlling the creature, the easier my phobia was to control. I even talked to it. I asked it what it wanted and why it wouldn't leave me alone. It wasn't CBT, but it was working. (See TIME's Wellness blog: "The Psychology...
...come when psychiatrists can wipe out phobias at will, like erasing a whiteboard. Who knows? But I suspect that my phobia is a more complicated animal than the ones they worked with at NYU. It goes back a lot further and down a lot deeper than colored cards and electric shocks...