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...from the burdens we’ve been carrying or from our inability to assume responsibility for those burdens? Perhaps, but this runs the risk of having no effect but self-flagellation. Then, we are as lost as we were when we began: personal problems and matters of inner-turmoil are addressed only superficially and are not lastingly resolved. If the Christians or other members of organized religions are trapped in this cycle of psychobabble, then there isn’t much hope for anyone else. Events like “Confessions”—and moreover...
...realized how much he liked what ketamine was doing to his amazing brain. I was afraid that Sasha had tasted a forbidden fruit, peeked into a place he might never forget, one he might long for. Into a 9-year-old mind already struggling with so much adult turmoil, we had loosed a psychedelic snake proffering an alternative and apparently pleasant reality...
...tiny Persian Gulf emirate, announced it was forking over $7.6 billion to take a 4.9% stake in the company. While Citi still faces difficulties, the cash infusion helped stabilize its plunging stock price and signaled to rattled markets that money was available to help subprime victims survive the turmoil...
Could anything prevent that from happening? Sure. Rogers--a co-founder, with George Soros, of the Quantum Fund--ticks off a list of danger points, including potential military conflicts (with Taiwan as the No. 1 candidate), political instability, social unrest, widening gaps between social classes, labor turmoil, dwindling resources, environmental threats and the like. But, he says, "China doesn't have to be perfectly mistake-free in order to produce some of the most profitable companies in the world...
...their non-Muslim neighbors, which, she argues, only create the appearance that the War on Terror is, in fact, a War on Islam.Perhaps when the West learns to look at itself as critically as Gannon does and provides the necessary support to rebuild a country wracked by years of turmoil, the Afghani people will finally have something to smile about.—Staff writer Jamison A. Hill can be reached at jahill@fas.harvard.edu...