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...hope that you were able to meet the deadline without too much stress. It’s unfortunate that your department coordinator was so unsympathetic, since thesis writing is stressful enough to turn even the most model student into the class dunce. But, don’t despair, I think I can guide you to the perfect email for use in this situation. Try this...

Author: By Sara J. Culver, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: DEAR SARA | 12/4/2006 | See Source »

...slap-Sadr scenario was reinforced by the second New York Times leak-a memo from National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley to the President, in which Hadley expressed despair over al-Maliki's incompetence. "He impressed me as a leader who wanted to be strong, but was having difficulty figuring out how to do so," Hadley wrote. The conventional assumption was that this was a purposeful White House leak, sending the message that Bush wanted al-Maliki to allow U.S. forces to move against the Mahdi Army, a step that al-Maliki has resisted so far-and with good reason, since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Absurdity of it All | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

This is usually the point at which most of us in the rich countries of the world throw up our hands in despair. Not so Dr. Mark Kline of the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. "If you focus on the enormity of the problem, you'll never get started," says Kline, who has cared for hundreds of HIV-positive children over the years in the U.S. and has seen many of them grow old enough to have children of their own (see box). "You have to tackle it piece by piece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An African Miracle | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

...fighting with himself for all of his adult life. Not the effeminate, tradition-flaunting liberal who has decided to be countercultural, but a deeply pious man who has tried his very hardest to suppress his desires because of the demands of his religion, and, as a result, found only despair and shame...

Author: By Michael Segal | Title: Hate the Sinner, Love the Sin | 11/21/2006 | See Source »

...Senator, I agree with you--and I would also say that despair is not a method...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Nov. 27, 2006 | 11/19/2006 | See Source »

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