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Some of Weiner-Davis' recipes earn hoots from others in the fractious fraternity of couples therapists. Of her advice that troubled couples should "just do it!"--have sex to jump-start a passionless marriage--Schnarch retorts, "Telling low-desire spouses to just do something just pisses them off. Most couples seeking help are angry, and angry sex isn't very generous. These people would rather poke each other's eyes out than stroke each other's genitals...
...expeditionary way: land a battalion, train for a couple of months with a host nation, leave and then come back six months later," said Jones. "We want a family of bases that can go from cold to warm to hot." Whatever the call, Eastern Europe is ready: Bulgaria's fractious parliament last month approved a proposal in principle to station U.S. troops on its soil. For poor countries only recently emerged from communist rule, the prospect of closer ties with Washington is a powerful enticement: "I have been waiting for the Americans since I was a child," says retired engineer...
...deal-making process, which consisted of a full year of negotiations periodically re-affirmed by neighborhood-wide votes, stands in sharp contrast to Harvard’s traditionally fractious relationship with abutting neighborhoods...
...deal-making process, which consisted of a full year of negotiations periodically re-affirmed by neighborhood-wide votes, stands in sharp contrast to Harvard’s traditionally fractious relationship with abutting neighborhoods...
...region that has long known only conflict and pain, any transformation is difficult, but now is the best time to act. The United States must ensure Georgia can achieve stability and become more than the sum of its (fractious) parts...