Word: weaknessness
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Yemeni President Abdullah Ali Saleh has unambiguously chosen Washington's side in its war with al-Qaeda, arresting scores of al-Qaeda suspects - even, reportedly, bin Laden's youngest wife, 20-year-old Amal al-Saddah. But despite the crackdown, al-Qaeda elements have found support among tribal chieftains in...
Still, say advocates, these measures do little to address the reason that the custody problems arose in the first place: a persistent misunderstanding of mental illness, particularly as it affects children. A 2000 survey by the National Mental Health Association found that 71% of those polled thought mental illness is...
I am a celebrity junkie. My favorite magazine is Vanity Fair, I occasionally make forays into Entertainment Weekly and, in true moments of weakness, People. It’s lately gotten so bad that I challenged my thesis advisor to a movie trivia standoff last week. He was good, I...
They needn't have fretted. At initial screenings, the 40-minute Ek Pal has earned a warm response. The typically melodramatic Bollywood plot has Sanjay, a respectable, married businessman, contracting HIV from a casual sexual encounter. Filled with guilt, he deserts his family, avoids telling his mistress, Komal (who is...
The lesson is not that appeasement is always a failed strategy, but that it is a limited one. The Romans used goodwill gestures throughout their history. They found that when they sent a nice urn to a ally, the goodwill gesture could signal the desire keep a close relationship. There...