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...once powerful pol submitted her resignation on Thursday, the same day, as it turned out, that dozens of elected officials from across the county gathered at a previously scheduled event to promote honest government and take a new ethics pledge. McCarty wrote in a memo that she expected to plead guilty next week and admitted that she had engaged in "criminal acts - something for which I should be prosecuted and for which I bear full responsibility." She did not say anything about the alleged role of her husband, who has not commented on being charged with misprision of felony...
...country, we have seen how we can rise to the occasion in a crisis: we saw it seven years ago when our cities came under attack. We've felt it in wartime, in natural disasters. But the Great Recession is no short-term, onetime event, to which we respond and move on. It is changing how we think and how we live and how we see one another. Barack Obama based his campaign on the promise to bring people together; the question now is, Can we resist the forces that would pull us apart...
What defines borderline personality disorder - and makes it so explosive - is the sufferers' inability to calibrate their feelings and behavior. When faced with an event that makes them depressed or angry, they often become inconsolable or enraged. Such problems may be exacerbated by impulsive behaviors: overeating or substance abuse; suicide attempts; intentional self-injury. (The methods of self-harm that borderlines choose can be gruesomely creative. One psychologist told me of a woman who used fingernail clippers to pull off slivers of her skin...
...president, to preside over the anniversary that marked half a century at the country’s helm. Fifty years and eleven U.S. presidents ago, his brother Fidel and he led a ragtag rebel force to improbable victory in early January 1959. Yet, days before this event, it was also Raúl’s turn to preside over the session of the Cuban National Assembly to enact a new social security law—an act that symbolizes what has gone well and badly over the past half century...
...couldn't get enough of the thrill of journalism. So it was especially frustrating for him to be prevented from running pictures or firsthand reporting from the war zones in northern Sri Lanka. The government claims that the 25-year-old war is finally approaching an end - an event any journalist would be eager to cover - but it has refused to allow reporters or photographers regular access to the war zones or to those areas where an estimated 230,000 people have been stranded amid the shelling...