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Most of the things folks in Washington fight over are trivial; we don't know what to do when we come up against a matter of life and death. If Chandra was a good friend, wouldn't Condit be more stricken? Isn't he betraying whatever friendship they had by not volunteering every detail about their relationship? The only way his conduct makes sense is if he's slavishly heeding the advice of all criminal attorneys: say nothing, for it could be used against you. But that makes him look guilty and hardhearted, whether...
...ones, they are presented with a bill and a choice: pay up, get lost or get hurt. Huang was asked to pay for the "storage" of her sister's "smelly" body. The only thing unusual about her case is that she didn't oblige. Most Taiwanese are too grief-stricken or scared to put up a fuss...
...regularly scheduled December meeting, the Overseers gathered in the gilded ballroom of Loeb House to hear Stone read off the list. He proceeded slowly, pausing to explain the positions of non-Harvard candidates. Then-Vice President Al Gore ’69 and President Bill Clinton had all been stricken from the list, but he did read off some familiar names: Varmus, Sullivan, Fineberg, Summers, Clark, and then, surprisingly, the head of one of the largest universities in the world: Lee C. Bollinger, president of the University of Michigan...
Feel better now? If not, I have a radical suggestion for the guilt-stricken among us: Snap out of it! Feelings of guilt are a gift from our conscience. They remind us that the first thing we ought to do is make choices we can live with. We can use our guilty pangs to make changes, even small ones (less TV but more bedtime stories, no junk food or violent video gaming), that improve our kids' lives. Says Harriet Lerner, psychotherapist and author of the terrific book The Mother Dance: "Healthy guilt helps us get in touch with our core...
Lerner believes that guilt, after taking a brief holiday during the 1980s, has surged again as mothers re-evaluate the impact that working has on their families. Lerner counsels mothers to understand that guilt rises from expectations that are out of whack with reality. "And," she says, "guilt-stricken mothers should also realize that the truly guilty rarely feel that...