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Suffering from severe depression yourself is bad enough. The smallest effort seems huge; feeling happy, or even content, is impossible to imagine. Things can get so bad that suicide may seem the only rational course. But it's almost worse when your child is depressed. Watching someone you love go...
Bush's Problem-and the U.S.'s Joe Klein in "Iraq is Not Just Bush's Problem" [May 24] stated that sooner or later John Kerry has to tell U.S. voters whether he thinks the war was worth it and "whether he believes America has a responsibility to restore stability...
Joe Klein stated that sooner or later John Kerry has to tell voters whether he thinks the war was worth it and "whether he believes America has a responsibility to restore stability and rebuild Iraq" [May 24]. That doesn't make sense. The real issue is not what Kerry thinks...
The answer is yes--sometimes--but not without great risk. Over the years, the U.S. government has spent a lot of time searching for a "truth serum," experimenting with electroshock and LSD without success. "Drugs in particular held out the highest hope," says Mark Bowden, who wrote a landmark story...
The trouble was, Ariel Sharon was trying to make a rational argument after years of disdaining rationality as softness. He had nurtured Israel's distinctive culture of toughness--but while strength may be a short-term solution, it can be a long-term addiction.