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...only way to acknowledge the problems faced by children from affluent families is "with a sardonic wink." In my book The Price of Privilege, I reported on disproportionately high rates of depression, anxiety and substance abuse among children of the wealthy. A broken child is a broken child, no matter what the parents' financial resources. Madeline Levine, Ph.D. Kentfield, California...
...country to break apart, enabling each of the country's three groups to choose its own government and provide for its own security. It is possible that Sunni and Shi'ite regions would remain together in a loose confederation, but Kurdistan's full independence is almost certainly a matter of time...
...prehistoric past, we would have lived in extended families, surrounded by kin whose interests we might have wanted to promote because they shared our genes. Now we live in big cities. We are not among kin nor people who will ever reciprocate our good deeds. It doesn't matter. Just as people engaged in sex with contraception are not aware of being motivated by a drive to have babies, it doesn't cross our mind that the reason for do-gooding is based in the fact that our primitive ancestors lived in small groups. But that seems...
...amounts to a validation of guilt by association—in other words, you share a religious affiliation with some people who have beliefs that I find unacceptable, therefore you are unacceptable. According to that logic, Golding should never vote for a Democrat, because party affiliation is entirely a matter of choice, and some Democrats defended slavery and opposed civil rights...
...sent it was relying on voter lists, there was no way to know whether the recipient was an illegal immigrant or a U.S.-born Latino whose family had lived in California for a century. According to a spokesman for California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, whose office is investigating the matter to see if voter intimidation laws were violated, those who received the letter included "fourth-generation Californians...