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...once you get inside the theater, don't expect this musical to be a Grand Ole Oprah. She's not in the show; she didn't write the book (that's by Pulitzer Prize-winner Marsha Norman) or the score (by Brenda Russell, Allie Willis and Stephen Bray, all Broadway newcomers); she didn't direct (Gary Griffin did). Nor is she the producer who nourished the show through hears of false starts and rewrites; Scott Sanders deserves that credit. Oprah's job has been to promote persuasively for a musical she wants the world to love...
Overcoming self-mutilation turns out to be less tricky than explaining it. Perhaps the most effective treatment is dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). Developed by psychologist Marsha Linehan of the University of Washington in Seattle, DBT is used as a frontline therapy for borderline-personality disorder. Because there appears to be a very significant overlap between borderlines and cutters, Linehan and others wondered if the same treatment might work equally well for both. It does...
...Marsha Rosenbaum, director of the national teen substance-abuse organization Safety First, acknowledges that underage drinking is an urgent issue, but she argues that ordinances like the one proposed in Stratford won't resolve the problem. "For the past three decades, we have been trying to get our kids to abstain until they're of age, and we've failed to do that," she says. "If we say they can't drink in our home, they'll just find somewhere else, somewhere more dangerous...
...overlook the fact that Bush took us into war on the basis of faulty intelligence. Rather has apologized. Bush has expressed no regrets. The President should take responsibility and apologize for misleading the American people, just as CBS did. Nobody died as a result of the CBS program. Marsha Budz Boulder...
...MARSHA BUDZ Boulder, Colo...