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...DISCORD Citizens in China rioted after Japan approved a text in April that calls acts of war, like the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, "incidents." Only 0.4% of schools use the book, and last week China and Japan began talks to quell such longtime tensions...
Thus, between the lines, even some of the blandest passages of the joint statement augur not imminent accord but protracted discord, and not just between Moscow and Washington but within the Administration as well. Resolving those disputes will take time, probably a long time, and that may be where the summit turns out to have helped most. As Georgi Arbatov, the Soviet Union's best-known Americanologist, put it, "The meeting has improved the possibility that there might be real breakthroughs achieved later...
Your article on psychotherapy, which notes that the field is heterogeneous and often discordant, may deter people from seeking help when they need it. Heterogeneity and discord do not mean ineffectiveness. Psychotherapy is a unique interaction between each patient and therapist. Well-trained psychotherapists employ whatever is most useful to a particular patient at a particular time. There will always be new theories about the human mind and personality. There will never, I hope, be uniformity. Charles W. Casella, M.D. Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Stanford University School of Medicine Palo Alto, Calif...
...class wife Fiona not only defects to the Soviets, but is revealed to be a KGB colonel. Samson and the dreaded Fiona skirmish at a distance in Mexico Set, the second book. At the end he appears to be ahead in this contest that seems a parody of postmarital discord, as he takes in hand Stinnes, a high-ranking Soviet defector...
...parties in power never gave a thought to the insurgency; they were keen only on gaining the position of Prime Minister. Such irresponsible leadership wrecked our country. So we cannot just go on blaming the King or the Maoists, because they are not the prime causes of the discord. The only way that the parliamentary processes can be revived is for party leaders to hand over leadership to the younger and more competent generation. Democracy cannot be synonymous with anarchy and whim. Rishav Shrestha Kathmandu...