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...answer the first question,] I think there's pretty wide consensus that antidepressants work best when they're used in conjunction with other kinds of treatment. If you use antidepressants under the supervision of a physician, you can also talk about how to address some of the [underlying] problems - if the sadness is caused by life events, the death of a loved one or the breakup of a romantic relationship, or if the sadness is caused by a feeling that you don't have control over your work, or by being in an unhappy marriage. Now, if we think antidepressants...
Along the way, Kennedy has steadily exchanged his heavy burden of what-ifs for an impressive record of legislative accomplishments. He has lived long enough to hear the growing consensus that his 45-year career would rank among the most consequential in the history of the U.S. Senate...
...sick, cerebral thrill of ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 241 pages), a dense, fractally complex first novel by the conspicuously talented Rivka Galchen, lies in watching a shrink, one of the trusted guardians of consensus reality, drift out of his lane and into oncoming traffic. Over and over again, Leo's finely calibrated mind analyzes the available data and arrives by the most rigorously logical methods at a series of increasingly demented conclusions. Which makes you realize, queasily, how worthless those methods were in the first place...
...will be most effective when they stop alienating social conservatives and opt to highlight the ways in which their own aims are consistent with the latter’s values. It is not an adaptation of aims that is necessary, but rather an adoption of a strategy that privileges consensus over paranoid dogmatism. When this adoption comes to be, the country as a whole will benefit...
...agreement broadly gives Hizballah what it wants: legitimacy as an armed state-within-a-state. The opposition will now have enough ministers in the Lebanese cabinet to veto any major decisions, effectively ending any attempt to move against Hizballah's weapons. It also calls for parliament to elect a consensus candidate, army chief Gen. Michel Suleiman, to the country's presidency, which has been vacant for months. The government had been hoping to elect one of its own, since it controls a majority in parliament...