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...United States, promoting democracy in Iran these days is no easy task. Push too hard for the reformists and America risks making Iran’s democracy advocates look beholden to America. Speak up too much and the budding democratic movement in Iran might fail. Yet doing nothing is an unacceptable alternative—simply neglecting the situation affronts America’s fundamental democratic beliefs...
...pain often go hand in hand, and new research suggests why it's important to recognize and treat both. In a group of 573 patients taking Prozac, Paxil or Zoloft, 24% were still not responding to the antidepressants after three months of treatment. The drugs were most likely to fail those who were in pain at the onset of treatment; the worse the pain, the less the drugs worked. The odds of a poor response were twice as high for patients in moderate pain and three to four times as high for those in severe pain...
...lost revenue], that adds up to a lot of money," he says. He is banking heavily on success his second time round in New York--hence the long hours spent training his staff for the move over the past 18 months. "The only two ways we are going to fail is if the building is a flop, or if we fail as a team." He pauses and smiles faintly. "So the thing is, will the building fail?" And that, finally, is something even the perfectionist Thomas Keller cannot control...
...saying, “I don’t want to buy the black vote; I just want to rent it for a day.’’ With this credo in mind, Democrats parade about black churches evoking the name of King during campaigns, but often fail to show similar zeal for black issues in the legislative process. Black leaders are just as responsible: most have either been co-opted into the party and thus are ineffective at achieving policy goals, or they are instead intellectually adrift, clinging tenaciously to civil rights-era politics...
...saying, “I don’t want to buy the black vote; I just want to rent it for a day.’’ With this credo in mind, Democrats parade about black churches evoking the name of King during campaigns, but often fail to show similar zeal for black issues in the legislative process. Black leaders are just as responsible: most have either been co-opted into the party and thus are ineffective at achieving policy goals, or they are instead intellectually adrift, clinging tenaciously to civil rights-era politics...