Word: neill
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DEBRIEFING: In a new book, former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill dishes on the Bushies...
...Neill says he hopes that straight talk about the broken decision-making process in the White House will highlight the larger political and ideological warfare that has gripped Washington and kept good ideas from becoming law. Perhaps naively or arrogantly, or both, he even believes it may help change the climate. Ask him what he hopes the book will accomplish, and he will talk about Social Security reform in earnest tones: tough choices won't be made in Washington so long as it shuns honest dialogue, bipartisanship and intellectual thoroughness. O'Neill may not have been cut out for this...
There is no effort to offer an opposing analysis of O'Neill's portrayal of his tenure. The book lists his gaffes--he ridiculed Wall Street traders, accused Democrats of being socialists and disparaged business lobbyists who were seeking a tax credit that the President supported--but it portrays these moments as examples of brave truth telling in a town that doesn't like it. White House aides have a different view: It wasn't just that O'Neill was impolitic, they say; his statements had real consequences--roiling currency markets and Wall Street. What O'Neill would call rigor...
Sallyanne Monti, 42, and Mickey Neill, 52, began seeing a couples therapist soon after their relationship began six years ago, and they have been in counseling on and off ever since. They have gone to hash out the kinds of problems that plague many couples: guilt, anxiety, miscommunication and dealing with teenage kids...
...Monti and Neill are both women, and while gay and heterosexual couples have plenty of issues in common, there are big differences as well. Gay couples have to cope daily with homophobia, says Robert-Jay Green, a psychologist in San Francisco. An even bigger problem is a lack of clarity about commitment. "In research samples, the average length of same-sex-couple relationships tends to be about six years," says Green, "compared to around 18 for heterosexuals...