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...simple," says Murray. "Human beings are relationship-forming animals. That's what we are. All our genetics gear us toward solid, supportive relationships. It is through these that we survive." Just as strong bonds are the path to avoiding depression, so they're the only escape route from its grip. Fortinberry says her depression was cured by her relationship with Murray. Antidepressants can only mask pain, she adds, while cognitive behavioral therapy is inherently flawed because it assumes that healing occurs from the inside out when really it happens from the outside...
...call itself Communist. It is still far from clear - now here's an uncertainty - that over the next decade China will be able to navigate a course that grows prosperity, with all the expectations of clean, accountable government that go with it, without also relaxing the Communist Party's grip on political power. One more curiosity. For all the attention paid to India and China, the denizens of Davos this year seemed willfully oblivious to the revival of the Japanese economy, and to the palpably renewed self-confidence among the Japanese political élite that their lost decade is over...
...many Hamas officials, however, dealing with Israel isn't so critical as focusing on domestic issues like fighting graft and getting a grip on the many Palestinian security organizations. "The international community wants to know what Hamas thinks about Israel and the U.S., but Hamas wants to work to its own timetable," says Abdul Sattar Kasim, a political scientist at An-Najah National University in Nablus. "They want to build a new Palestinian society. They're not going to talk about the road map. They're going to talk about the rights of Palestinian refugees. They're not going...
Even before DeLay's announcement that he would abdicate his leadership post, top Bush advisers tell TIME, the President's inner circle always treated DeLay as a necessary burden. He may have had an unmatched grip on the House and Washington lobbyists, but DeLay is not the kind of guy?in background and temperament?the President feels comfortable with. Of the former exterminator, a Republican close to the President's inner circle says, "They have always seen him as beneath them, more blue collar. He's seen as a useful servant, not someone you would want to vacation with...
...center platform of taxation, gun control and same-sex marriage (he doesn't like any of them) until recently seemed to place him well outside the Canadian mainstream. Why the turnabout? Because Canada is having a nationwide attack of virtue. Corruption scandals have steadily eroded the government's grip on power - in direct proportion to its impressive longevity. Canada, famous for hockey, waggish comedians and an unforgiving Arctic climate, is also home to one of the world's longest-ruling political parties. Canada's Liberals have reigned over the landmass stretching from the 49th parallel to the Arctic Ocean since...