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...resist. "My fantasy is to pick on parents the same way their kids have picked on my daughter," says Dandi Daley Mackall of Cinnamon Lake, Ohio, whose daughter, 18, has been teased about her speech impairments. Mackall has called parents but found them defensive or in denial...
...know, Father Jim never did more than snap towels with the guys. But if he had, there were lots of reasons why the nuns would have been clueless or in denial. Says Sister Joan Chittister, 50 years a Benedictine nun and the author of more than a dozen books: "Since all these charges have come out, we look at one another and ask, 'Did you know? How could we have missed this?'" Sister Joan remembers scolding more than one youngster for being late to class, never thinking it could be anything more than dawdling: "I remember saying, 'Mass has been...
...know has witnessed this kind of imperviousness in her two sons, ages 4 and 6, who cry, "Terror attack," and joyfully throw their toy cars into the air. There is a numbness too in Israeli attitudes toward the punishment inflicted upon the Palestinian population. Most Israelis operate in denial, either ignoring this human suffering or justifying it with rationalizations such as "They started...
...states feel they're entitled. After all, the federal government has done little to expand health coverage for Americans over the past 10 years. Even now, Congress and the President are still fighting over whether to allow people who already have health insurance to sue their carriers for denial of coverage. Prescription drug coverage for seniors on Medicare is still a pipe dream. Nothing is being done for the uninsured...
...security measures. That approach has failed. But if the endpoint is a two-state solution, then there's no harm in combining cease-fire efforts with moves to reopen negotiations over ending the occupation. The counter-argument has been that this would "reward violence." But that's simply denial of the obvious - the only reason the Israelis started talking to the Palestinians in the first place was because they were in a state of violent rebellion. The Oslo process would never have happened were it not for the first intifada. The purpose of a peace process is to create mechanisms...