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...hospitality and distorting his family life, and is threatening to sue her for libel. Seierstad, whose book has become Norway's biggest nonfiction seller ever, stands by her account of the Khan clan. Whatever the truth, it's not hard to see why her searingly powerful indictment has so shaken the Khans. At one point in the book, appalled by what she regards as their unquestioning acceptance of male superiority, she fumes, "I have rarely been as angry as I was with the Khan family, nor have I had the urge to hit anyone as much as I did there...
Playing under modified Boggle rules, Aguilar and Greenspan searched the board for acronyms. After one minute of fruitless searching, the Boggle board was re-shaken and they began to play under standard rules...
Within the medical community--to say nothing of the families of the troubled kids--concern is growing about just what psychotropic drugs can do to still developing brains. Few people deny that mind pills help--ask the untold numbers who have climbed out of depressive pits or shaken off bipolar fits thanks to modern pharmacology. But few deny either that we're a quick-fix culture, and if you give us a feel-good answer to a complicated problem, we'll use it with little thought of long-term consequences...
...RATE GEORGE W. BUSH AS PRESIDENT? He's been the most adventuresome and in many senses the most revolutionary President since at least Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He has shaken up our foreign policy to an almost unrecognizable state...
...though Bala’s world was shaken up like a snow-globe with the late-June, three-team trade that plucked him from the friendly confines of his native Northeast and the Ottawa Senators, he’s settling into his new role with the defending AHL (Calder Cup) champion Houston Aeros, the AHL affiliate of his new team, the Minnesota Wild...