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Sometimes families need a little help from an expert who can stand back from everybody's feelings. One counseling session was enough to help Susan Emerling and her husband resolve an ongoing argument between his daughter and hers soon after the couple married. One of the girls had lots of friends over and complained that her stepsister kept horning in. The other said it wasn't fair to leave her out. The counselor suggested that they make a rule: Whoever had friends over had a right to privacy with them in her bedroom, but if they played in a common...
While the entertainment world was snickering over Mel Gibson's anti-Semitic outburst and mug shot, a couple of hip-hoppers took a stand against prejudice. This fall JAY-Z and RUSSELL SIMMONS filmed a public-service announcement calling anti-Semitism "a long word for racism." The ad has been translated into four other languages, and will be broadcast in the U.S., Europe and South America in January. Simmons drafted his Def Jam pal to help out on the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding project because "Jay-Z's got a bigger mouth than anybody," says Simmons. "If he says...
...Chinese New York Times researcher accused of leaking state secrets; in Linyi and Beijing. While their cases were unrelated, irregularities in Chen and Zhao's trials-on charges of public disturbance and influence-peddling, respectively-drew international condemnation. Of the simultaneous announcements last Friday that the convictions would stand, Human Rights Watch senior researcher Mickey Spiegel said: "It's just a very bad day for justice in China...
...includes Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd had recommended last month that student groups be exempted from the tax, which is imposed upon all units of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Faculty Dean Jeremy R. Knowles, though, told The Crimson last week that the tax would stand. “As Dean I should not (by making such exceptions) micro-manage the major units of the FAS,” Knowles wrote in an e-mail...
...ordinary Iraqis, who look to the armed groups for protection against their sectarian rivals. If the violence were to suddenly stop, the influence of those groups would plummet. And that would give the U.S. and Iraq's Arab neighbors the opportunity to flood the country with reconstruction aid and stand up an army ready to defend a government in Baghdad. By the time the U.S. left and the bad guys were ready to fight again, they would have lost their ability to dictate the terms of the battle...