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...same period, the CIA mounted a successful operation in support of the mujahedin rebels, who chased the Soviets out of that country. The CIA's war was run from Pakistan by veteran clandestine officer Milton Bearden, who had the satisfaction of seeing the last Russian troops walk across the Friendship Bridge into Uzbekistan on Feb. 15, 1989. Bearden believes the CIA operation in Afghanistan helped speed the collapse of the Soviet Union...
...other's wedding. They stayed close for 25 years. Then, seven years ago, they had a fight--one accused the other of improperly appropriating a business idea to use in her own company--and they stopped speaking. Recently, one of them, Gail Blanke, 56, concluded that the long friendship ultimately meant more to her than the argument. Blanke telephoned her friend and told her how important she was. The friendship instantly resumed. Even though the two live in different states, today they keep in touch on a regular basis and know everything that is going on in each other...
...disorders are dropped from each edition. First notes that a supposed childhood condition called identity disorder was excluded from DSM IV even though many child psychologists wanted to keep it. Kids could qualify for that disorder if they were "uncertain" about long-term goals, career choice and friendship patterns. "We said, 'Wait a minute. This looks like normal adolescence,'" says First, "and so we eliminated...
...says Seligman, "these people are capable of the second form of happiness: 'the good life.' It consists first in knowing what your strengths are and then recrafting your life to use them--in work, love, friendship, leisure, parenting. It's about being absorbed, immersed, one with the music...
Adams House Superintendent Jorge Teixeira said he had a friendship going back years with Laurinda Gomes and Pedro Barbosa. Teixeira said he first met the couple in their native Cape Verde islands. The men worked together for the janitorial company UNICCO in Boston from 1984 to 1988 and remained friends afterward, Teixeira said...