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...teens suffering from discord at home and doing poorly at school, and there is some truth to that cliché. "Girls have a more conflicted relationship with their bodies," says Wendy Lader, clinical director of Self Abuse Finally Ends, a treatment program in Naperville, Ill. "They go after it and hurt it when they're angry." While such traumas as sexual abuse don't always precede cutting, they often do appear to be risk factors...
...week before the british general election, the news inside Labour Party headquarters on Victoria Street in London was disturbing. A perfectly timed leak of the Attorney General's March 2003 legal advice to Tony Blair about the Iraq war was starting to hurt Blair in the polls. The memo proved he had not defied the legal advice or lied about it, but it did suggest he had not fully leveled with Parliament or the public about the perils of invading Iraq. Labour voters were suddenly draining away to the antiwar Liberal Democrats - twice as many as were switching the other...
...campaign that needed him badly, according to the polls, decisions were made smoothly. Blair and Brown themselves seemed to relish being good friends again. They were "laughing like they did 10 years ago" said one Labour veteran, as they barnstormed together around the country - and the bonhomie did not hurt with voters, either. The ministerial reshuffle Blair announced after the election promoted enough Brown acolytes to suggest that the era of good feelings isn't yet over...
While I respect Ann Coulter's intellect, I feel that the offensive comments she has made over the years have hurt her [April 25]. Diverse points of view should, of course, be brought to the table, but how does wishing, as Coulter did in 2002, that Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh had blown up the New York Times building contribute to the political dialogue? Coulter could use her fame to promote valuable intellectual debate. Instead, she wastes it on personal attacks that do nothing to advance discussion of real issues...
...long ago the National Security Council presented the White House with a plan to discredit him titled "Marginalizing Chalabi." He was accused by unnamed intelligence officials of leaking U.S. secrets to Iran. His home in Baghdad was raided by the U.S.-run occupation authority, and his feelings were hurt when high-level Pentagon officials who had been in regular contact with him stopped calling when they visited Iraq...