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...foreign eyes, it seems insensitive -- even criminally negligent--of Iraq's parliamentarians to take a four-week vacation while their country struggles with monstrous problems and their countrymen cope with the 110°F (43°C) heat. But to Iraqis, callous disregard is pretty much exactly what they have come to expect from their politicians. Some of the most prominent Iraqi politicians spend little time in the country, much less in parliament. Egregious absenteeism cuts across sectarian and ethnic lines: perennial no-shows include Shi'ite elder Ibrahim al-Jaafari, Sunni leader Saleh Mutlak and secular stalwarts Iyad Allawi and Adnan...
...have preached so long about the hope of Heaven, and comforted so many who are grieving. Now the sadness is yours. How do you cope with missing...
...cope is by thanking God every day for the years we had together. They are over now-but God was good in giving us to each other, and I want to be grateful for those memories and not suppress them. Recently I pulled out some of my favorite pictures of Ruth-several going back many years-and put them on my desk, just to remind me of this...
...Then I also cope by keeping busy, and by being with other people. I can't travel as much as I once did, but almost every day one of our children or grandchildren comes by, or a friend, or even someone I've never met before. Over the years I've seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that...
...well. We recognize that military families do an amazing job at getting though these situations that are tougher than many of us could ever imagine." Abusive women were more likely to be Caucasian than Hispanic or black, suggesting that there may be differences in the way white mothers cope with stress compared with black or Hispanic moms; the study's authors write that the racial difference may have to do with the mother's employment status or her willingness to ask for outside help. In contrast, male spouses showed no increase in maltreatment when their wives were deployed...