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Ashcroft is right to grant the survivors anything they think will help them through the night. But there's a question whether this execution will be a last milestone in their hellish journey or yet another trauma to absorb. Will public witness deliver a moment of catharsis, restore a measure of equilibrium to a shattered universe? Or is it one last way for McVeigh to victimize them? Many of the survivors obviously hope for a closure that has so far eluded them, for a miraculous lifting of their grief. But they have their expectations in check. "In the early stages...
Dealing With Trauma: Children amid catastrophe...
Problems arise, according to Barral, when a trauma or malfunction puts the mechanism out of alignment. "An organ that loses its mobility can throw the whole organism out of whack," he says. "Our task is to help it get back on track." To that end, Barral, 56, has spent nearly three decades developing the therapeutic technique he calls visceral manipulation...
...That danger exists. But the reality is that often in these cases, the trauma of the event scares both sides, and neither wants a recurrence. Historically, such incidents have the perverse impact of prompting an intensification of dialogue to avoid repetition. In the end, they tend to bring both sides closer together. The meetings that begin on April 18 may see some yelling and screaming, but in the end they could actually result in an agreement over some rules of engagement for these surveillance flights that could build confidence and lessen tensions...
...most important, their U.S. MBAs. But as China's economy and confidence grow, its young citizens are the ones most eager for Beijing to flex its muscle. Perhaps that's not surprising. This is the first generation in People's Republic history not to have suffered through the trauma of war. "If Mao Zedong were the leader today, he would have shot down the American plane," says Li Hua, a physics student from Shanghai, who counts KFC as her favorite take-out. "But our leaders now don't have the guts to get in a fight...