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This could be the beginning of a bitter father-son rivalry in the two men’s ongoing quest to become the ultimate self-help authority. Or maybe it’s a thinly veiled admission that even Dr. Phil himself can’t believe that people are actually looking to his son for “life strategies,” even if it’s just a list of foods to eat at a fast food restaurant...

Author: By Lisa M. Puskarcik, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bubblegum Machine | 12/12/2003 | See Source »

Taslima Nasrin, the Bangladeshi author whose sexually frank memoir of the literary life has ignited controversy, litigation and bitter condemnations from conservative clerics and former friends alike, realizes that her situation is a bit unusual...

Author: By M. PATRICIA Li, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Nasrin Memoir Confronts Taboo | 12/12/2003 | See Source »

...bitter January evening in 2001, Shaka J. D. Bahadu, let his friends convince him to participate in Harvard’s celebrated stress reliever: primal scream...

Author: By A. HAVEN Thompson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Model Marshal | 12/11/2003 | See Source »

...Iraqi driver directed Raed to a place on the bank of the Tigris where hundreds of Iraqis were scouring lists of names pasted to the walls of a building. "I realized these were relatives of Saddam's prisoners who had been executed before the war," Raed says with a bitter laugh. "Their names had just been released." Iraqi families looking for missing relatives sense echoes of Saddam's era. "At least in Saddam's days, the police would tell families they had arrested their people," says Mohammed's mother Khalida Ahmed al-Salehy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Losing Hearts And Minds | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

Those who celebrated the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruling in favor of gay marriage know that their most bitter battles lay ahead. The court’s Nov. 18 decision that the state must begin issuing marriage licenses to homosexual couples within 180 days is a historical watershed. But as in most great moments of social upheaval, progress only compounds the backlash among those determined to preserve the status...

Author: By Alan J. Tabak, | Title: Whipping the Anti-Gay Backlash | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

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