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...doubted my son's love for me, I'd be more likely to see you as a threat," she tells me. "But I don't." Apter's research supports that theory; she found that doubt is what drives any conflict between women and their mothers-in-law. "The root of the problem is vulnerability," says Apter, "the fear that the valuable relationship between mother and son is under threat as lives change. Mothers are left thinking, 'Will I still be valued for what I bring to the family...
...learned in Vietnam that Ho Chi Minh's "hearts and minds" approach could withstand burning showers of napalm and carpet-bombing from B-52s. The poison of Islamic fundamentalism will survive any aggression we mount against it. Roots don't submit to violence. (Chop up a crabgrass root, and it breeds a dozen new offspring.) You have to patiently dig and dig, and never give up until the job's done. (See pictures of Saudi Arabia's Jihad Rehab Camp...
...root causes of fanaticism aren't a mystery. Some are external, like the rigid political oppression that exists in almost every Arab country. Some are internal, lying in the endemic ignorance and lack of education in those societies. Both can be changed, however slow and difficult the process...
...Getting back in touch with the root importance of these events reinvigorated a fundamental spirit of change and the means to create a real impact for people outside of the Square, with which Harvard does indeed empower us, should we choose to embrace such means and events...
...root cause of Zimbabwe's woes is the power struggle between President Robert Mugabe and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, led by Morgan Tsvangirai. This, by itself, has been bad enough - Mugabe and his security services unleashed a campaign of violence that has killed more than 200 people when they lost control of parliament and Mugabe came second to Tsvangirai in a general election in March this year. (See pictures of the political crisis in Zimbabwe...