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...training included frank discussions about the trainees’ own drinking habits during the seminars.Trainees also prepared on their own, each attending an open meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), and doing around 15 pages of reading a week.“But we read it for our own sake. We’d do it on our own,” Tao said.The program emphasizes information and facts about alcohol and drugs—the DAPAs are now well versed in the science of dehydrogenase, blood alcohol level, and the AA’s 12 steps.Sancken called the process...
...wish, for the sake of literature in general, that every gifted writer had the clout required to get his or her work out there like Viswanathan did. So my reaction of disgust to the entire affair is not premised on jealousy, but injustice. The disillusionment comes not from plagiarism but from the blatant (mis)use of social power...
...Mosul in the north before she was taken back to Baghdad, drugged with pills, dressed in a suicide belt and sent to bomb a cleric's office in Khadamiyah, where she turned herself in to the police. A judge gave her a seven-year jail sentence "for her sake" to protect her from the gang, according to the prison director...
...thought-provoking contribution to the divisive debate on illegal immigration. The 11 million illegal immigrants living in the U.S. broke our laws, and that has to be remedied. But surely the majority of them are otherwise law-abiding, hardworking individuals, many with children who are American citizens. For the sake of millions of American citizens who are no less patriotic than the rest of us, let's not criminalize their parents just because they are here illegally. We should make illegals pay a fine and, if they have no criminal record, allow them to apply for a guest-worker visa...
...Krauthammer took a clear look at the mind of Iranian President Ahmadinejad, who has stated that Israel should be wiped off the map. Was that declaration empty rhetoric or a sincere vow? For the sake of the world, I pray that Ahmadinejad's words are just words. Leo Khang Meng Kuala Lumpur...