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...Spousal Bereavement in Late Life, a book based on a longitudinal study of 1,500 older married couples. "We found that almost half the people who reported satisfying marriages grieved--sometimes devastatingly--immediately after the loss but by six months later had few major symptoms of grief," says Deborah Carr, a researcher at Rutgers University and a co-editor of the book...
...focus on the extraordinary depths of his characters.The only actor who fulfills the promise of the writing is Lage as Howie, who gives us a husband who is fundamentally understanding, but too tired to keep laboring at his fractured marriage. Even when Becca’s sister Izzy (Geneva Carr) questions Howie about what appears to be an affair, we manage to identify with the frustration that led him there, even as we are disgusted by his ineffective attempt to deny it.Carr as Izzy and Anderman as Nat come off with similar degrees of blandness, which is disappointing, given...
...Markus Wolf, 83, suave spymaster known as the "man without a face" for his ability to elude photographers during most of his 34-year reign over the foreign-intelligence division of the Stasi, East Germany's dreaded secret police; in Berlin. Rumored to be the model for John le Carré's shadowy Karla (a suggestion the author has denied), Wolf placed his 4,000 spies in such enemy territory as NATO headquarters, cannily converted West German agents to his team, and famously touted the "Romeo method"-the wooing of lonely government secretaries to gain access to confidential files. Among...
Being tough on Sudan would mean recognizing that the United Nations will only ever play a perfunctory role in a real solution. Sarah B. Sewall, a peacekeeping expert with the Carr Center for Human Rights, argues that the United Nations would at most issue a Security Council resolution which would need to be “creatively construed” for any sort of meaningful intervention to occur...
...conferences European and American diplomats had with Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. While Ahmadinejad is a bit more forthright than Hitler about his disdain for Jews, declaring that Israel should be "wiped away" and the Holocaust is a "myth," Neville Chamberlain would have probably found him trustworthy. Fred S. Carr Jr. Virginia Beach, Virginia...