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Lamont’s opposition to the Iraq War has become a major campaign issue in the primary race; Lieberman has used strong language to stress his ability to work with Republicans...
When people ask me what a war correspondent's life is like, they're usually expecting tales of high drama and great danger, of intolerable mental strain and how-the-hell-do-you-manage physical stress. After three and a half years in Iraq, I have so many stories of that ilk I may never need to pay for my own drink again. But as difficult as working in Iraq can be, many in the press corps here will tell you that, often, the hardest time is when you're not working. For a journalist, life in Baghdad is about...
...funny. I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny. I think that kind of loss can fuel how you lead your whole life. It would be more why I've chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about...
PLEADED GUILTY. Claude Allen, 45, former Bush White House domestic-policy adviser, in a plea agreement, to one misdemeanor count of theft for defrauding Target stores by stealing items and then attempting to get refunds for them; in Rockville, Md. Allen last week ascribed his behavior to job stress and sleep deprivation in dealing with the fallout from Hurricane Katrina...
...anxiety, depression and other mental health disorders. As many as half of the children they were caring for were suffering from mental disorders of their own. A poll of police officers and firefighters, most of whom lost homes in the storm, found that roughly 20% were experiencing post-traumatic stress syndrome and that one in four emergency responders was suffering from major depression. More troubling, perhaps, is a 25% jump in the mortality rate, including a threefold increase in the suicide rate - a conservative estimate since many self-inflicted deaths are classified as accidental...