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...simplest way to heal an old wound, advises Goldenthal, is to start with an apology. But if it were that easy, no one would need to buy books about estrangement. So Goldenthal suggests it's possible to acknowledge another's pain about the past without necessarily agreeing. He proposes such responses as "It must have been really awful for you'' or "You must have been terribly hurt for the memory to be so fresh today...
...actor and playwright in his youth, Pope John Paul II knows that the simplest gesture can move an audience. From a bold wave to his countrymen in communist Poland in 1979 to his quietly slipping a note in Jerusalem's Wailing Wall two decades later, this Pope has always found ways to keep the world watching. But last week it was John Paul, 81, who had to do the watching. Struggling with an arthritic right knee and symptoms of Parkinson's disease, the Pope for the first time in his pontificate stepped aside and let others lead several...
Prime Minister Tony Blair told a packed House of Commons especially recalled from its Easter break that the Queen Mother had been a "unifying figure" for the nation. "There is nothing false or complicated about the public response to her death," said Blair. "It's the simplest of equations. She loved her country and her country loved her." His words were borne out by Lara Denyer, a smart-suited office worker in her mid-30s who, during her lunch hour last week, quietly placed an anonymous bunch of white lilies among the other bouquets outside Clarence House, the Queen Mother...
...argument, in its simplest form, is analogous to snatching a toy from a child and then taking umbrage when the child is not thankful upon return...
...simplest measure of statehood, after all, is a monopoly of force in a sovereign territory. And two days of fierce fighting in the southeastern town of Gardez have shown the limits of Kabul's authority. When the shooting stopped, Thursday, the warlord appointed governor by Karzai, Padsha Khan Zadran, had been repelled from the city by forces loyal to rival warlord Saifullah...