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...what if the conflict is between your biological child and your stepchild? Balancing the scales of justice between them can test parents sorely. Susan Wallis, a kindergarten teacher in Ellicott City, Md., initially tried to defend her son Sam, now 10, when his three older stepsiblings teased him. "I'd react, 'My poor baby!'" she admits. Her husband Kent Davis suggested that when the kids fought, the disputants should bring their issue before both parents. Each child, without interruption and using "I" statements, would explain what happened and how it made him feel. The tactic has helped the kids recognize...
Doctors who monitor drug tests often have financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry—but most of them don’t think this poses a conflict of interest, according to a study led by a Harvard Medical School professor...
Connelly said she was surprised by the reported conflicts of interest and added that hiding a conflict is actually more troubling than the conflict itself...
...defend itself.”Harman said that while he was in the army, the Israeli government had a policy of destroying the homes of individuals whom it had determined to be terrorists.“For most of my service I lived with a very deep internal conflict. I was politically opposed to the operations I was ordered to do,” he says, later adding in an e-mail that he is critical of the Israeli military “only because I hold us to higher standards than anyone else.”And while many...
...Politicians and policy makers have burned no small amount of energy in the last half century parsing the fine, and sometimes nonexistent, shades of meaning that distinguish a police action from a conflict from a peacekeeping mission from a war. There are a lot of reasons those lines are so easy to blur, but one of the most problematic is that the U.S. Constitution - an otherwise estimable document - just dropped the ball on this...