Word: pains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Israeli Prime Minister last May and lost when she gave him an ultimatum about moving troops from the West Bank, was growing increasingly frustrated with Israeli stalling. Friday night, as the Israelis celebrated the Sabbath, Albright was host to a small, Arabs-only dinner. "I really understand the pain and aspirations of your people," she said in a toast. Chief Middle East negotiator Dennis Ross was warning his colleagues not to alienate Netanyahu. With the right tactics, Ross said, there was hope for a deal...
Health-care reform is overdue. Relief from pain, suffering and fear of death carries a price as a free-market product. But the real buyers are the government and health-insurance middlemen. American health care comprises an elaborate structure. Backstage, courageous nurses and ethical physicians keep things from falling apart. Reforming America's most powerful cartel requires enormous political courage. Wallowing with Kenneth Starr is safer. THOMAS A. MCGOFF Moscow...
Strong's own book stems from an article of the same name which she wrote in 1993. She shows all the marks of a good journalist; she clearly knows her topic, and writes about it with ease. She manages to capture the pain and anguish that self-mutilators feel before they cut themselves, and the release and calm that they feel afterwards...
...women in her book, and she points out that most self-mutilators are women, use everything from irons to scissors to inflict pain upon themselves. Many have highly ritualized cuttings, in which they set out the instruments of their own torture as carefully as a surgeon setting out her tools. The images in the book are unnervingly graphic, and Strong spares the reader as little as the victims spare themselves. In one chilling episode, a woman "sliced one [arm] open from wrist to elbow down to the muscle and burned herself so badly she required a skin graft...
...self-mutilation is the "addiction of the '90s" as Strong claims, then chances are it will be showing up in even the most secure of households. Until someone figures out why, people will continue to cut the pain away...