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...home. Who he was - who he really was - is rooted in the rambling, white clapboard house in Hyannis Port to which he could, and would, retreat to recover from all wounds...
...stay-at-home moms, says Natalie Caine of Los Angeles-based Empty Nest Support Services, which offers private phone sessions and seminars that rely on art therapy and journaling. "This is a grieving process for some parents," says Caine, who in October will counsel empty nesters at a spa retreat in California. "They can't just 'get over it.' " (One of her suggestions for moms in mourning: throw a party and ask the guests to bring a card on which they've written what their empty-nester pal would be "fabulous at giving the world...
...though a final total won't be known until two weeks later. Karzai is expected to come out ahead, but it appears unlikely he'll carry the 50% of the vote plus one needed to avoid a runoff in October. Should a runoff happen, analysts agree the country will retreat to ethnic and regional divisions, with the majority of Pashtuns across the south backing Karzai, and Tajiks, the second largest ethnic group, rallying in the north behind Abdullah, the son of a Pashtun father and Tajik mother. Abdullah is also more closely identified with the Northern Alliance, which ousted...
...forget, had won all his 14 major championships - the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open and USPGA - when holding the lead going into the last round and had never lost any tournament on U.S. soil when leading by more than one shot. Other big names on the tour seem to retreat into the fetal position when confronted by Woods at the climax to a major. Not Yang. For the first time ever, a player in the final pairing not only reeled Woods in (the South Korean trailed by two shots at the start of play Sunday) but did it with such...
...Back in Washington, D.C., President Barack Obama learned the enduring value of a well-intentioned gesture with another kind of summit. He felt that he needed to retreat from the inflammatory words that he uttered in judgment of the Cambridge police department after Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was arrested there, sparking a national debate about race in America. Though the discourse about the arrest, its aftermath, and the realities of race problems in the country spread far and wide, Obama thought that a simple gesture might soothe the ire of the affair—an invitation to relax over...