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Too manly for depression
Study says older men attach a stigma to this mental illness and are less likely than women to seek help
BY CURTIS L. TAYLOR
Newsday Staff Writer
Posted October 24 2006
Men like being strong, silent types, according to a new study, but thatmight affect their ability to seek and receive treatment for depression.
Older men identified in the study as "old school" or "John Wayne types"tended to believe there was a stigma attached to being diagnosed or labeledmentally ill, and they were less likely than women to seek help fordepression.
The study, published in the October issue of the American Journal ofGeriatric Psychiatry, also underscored several other depression-relatedbarriers older men face, including having more difficulty than womenrecognizing or expressing anxiety or seeking referrals to treatmentprograms.
Dr. Ladson Hinton, lead author and associate professor of psychiatry at the University of California at Davis, said the findings had significant implications for men aged 65 and older, who were almost eight times aslikely to commit suicide than women; that translates to 31.8 per 100,000 compared with 4.1 per 100,000.
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Romney and religion
By Scot Lehigh, Globe Columnist | October 24, 2006
SLICK WILLARD is back -- and the artful dodger who is Mitt's Romney's alterego may just be hurting his national hopes by injecting religion intoRomney's might-be presidential campaign.
Those with long memories may recall that the governor had barely finished arranging the photographs on his desk before he was off exploring apresidential campaign.
The reason for that premature politicking, political advisers maintained,was the need to gauge whether conservative Christian Republicans would beopen to a Mormon candidate, since some evangelicals distrust the MormonChurch and its unorthodox theology.
Still, until last week, Romney's Mormonism hadn't emerged as a big issue,even as the governor has emerged as a much-talked-about possible presidential prospect.
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Romney backer says he's at fault for uproar
Calls Mormon effort overstated
By Scott Helman, Globe Staff | October 24, 2006
One of Governor Mitt Romney's biggest supporters in Utah, developer KemGardner, is taking responsibility for the political fallout from the Globe'sdisclosures of discussions among Romney aides and Mormon Church leadersabout an effort to build Mormon support for the governor's probablepresidential bid.
"I'm to blame for this whole mess," Gardner, a close friend of Romney's, wasquoted as saying in yesterday's edition of The Salt Lake Tribune. ButGardner also termed the discussion between the two camps innocent and said aRomney political consultant had overstated its significance, the paper reported.
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New Liberal Radio Network Is Formed
PHOENIX, Oct. 24, 2006
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(AP) The co-founders of Air America Radio have formed a new liberal talkradio network that promises to promote freedom and social justice.
That's according to the new company's CEO, Mike Newcomb, who says Nova M Radio, a Phoenix-based network formed by Air America co-founders Anita andSheldon Drobny, will make its first broadcast on Oct. 30th.
Shortly before Air America filed for bankruptcy earlier this month, Newcombsaid he and the Drobnys made a proposal to take a controlling interest inAir America, but the offer was declined two weeks before the company's reorganization petition was filed.
Newcomb said the new network is a competitor to Air America and that theDrobnys invested in Nova M Radio because they believed in the business modelof liberal talk radio and wanted it to continue to grow.
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Limbaugh: Fox `shilling' in stem cell ad
Chicago Tribune
October 24, 200
A political ad in which a Parkinson's-afflicted Michael J. Fox talks aboutstem cell research was criticized Monday by conservative radio talk showhost Rush Limbaugh, who asserted that Fox was "either off his medication oracting" while filming the commercial.
"Michael J. Fox is allowing his illness to be exploited and in the processis shilling for a Democrat politician," Limbaugh said of the ad for Senatecandidate Claire McCaskill of Missouri.
Limbaugh later seemed to back off the idea that Fox was acting out symptoms, saying he didn't mean to imply "that one could easily act it out for thepurposes of a commercial."
But he also said, "I have gotten a plethora of e-mails from people sayingMichael J. Fox has admitted in interviews that he goes off his medicationfor Parkinson's disease when he appears before Congress or other groups as ameans of illustrating the ravages of the disease."
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The Washington Post
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/benchconference/2006/10/skilling_got_what_he_deserved.htmlThe
Fair or Not, Skilling Got What He Deserved
Sure, it's unfair that former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling just received afederal prison sentence that is four times longer than that of former EnronCFO Andrew Fastow, the fellow pretty much everyone agrees was the prime architect of the collapse of Enron. And sure it is unfair that both of thesemen will go to prison for years and years while Kenneth Lay, the formerEnron Chairman, never had to a spend a day in jail for his role in themassive collapse of the company. But life is unfair sometimes. And certainlyno one who knows anything about the life and times of Skilling, until todayanyway, could contend that he did not have more than his fair share of goodfortune during his meteoric rise to corporate prominence.
To the bitter end, and to his sentencing detriment, Skilling refused Mondayto demonstrate much regret, or accept much responsibility, for the economic pain and suffering he caused so many people by his action, or inaction,while he was in charge of Enron. "
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/23/AR2006102301148_pf.html
U.S. Rank on Press Freedom Slides Lower
By Nora Boustany
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, October 24, 2006; A15
Some poor countries, such as Mauritania and Haiti, improved their record ina global press freedom index this year, while France, the United States andJapan slipped further down the scale of 168 countries rated, the groupReporters Without Borders said yesterday.
The news media advocacy organization said the most repressive countries interms of journalistic freedom -- such as North Korea, Cuba, Burma andChina -- made no advances at all.
The organization's fifth annual Worldwide Press Freedom Index tracks actionsagainst news media through the end of September. The group noted its concernover the declining rankings of some Western democracies as well as thepersistence of other countries in imposing harsh punishments on media thatcriticize political leaders.
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The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/24/health/24alzh.html
October 24, 2006
Self-Portraits Chronicle a Descent Into Alzheimer's
By DENISE GRADY
When he learned in 1995 that he had Alzheimer's disease, William Utermohlen,an American artist in London, responded in characteristic fashion.
"From that moment on, he began to try to understand it by painting himself,"said his wife, Patricia Utermohlen, a professor of art history.
Mr. Utermohlen's self-portraits are being exhibited through Friday at theNew York Academy of Medicine in Manhattan, by the Alzheimer's Association.
The paintings starkly reveal the artist's descent into dementia, as hisworld began to tilt, perspectives flattened and details melted away. Hiswife and his doctors said he seemed aware at times that technical flaws hadcrept into his work, but he could not figure out how to correct them.
"The spatial sense kept slipping, and I think he knew," Professor Utermohlensaid. A psychoanalyst wrote that the paintings depicted sadness, anxiety,resignation and feelings of feebleness and shame.
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The Miami Herald
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SPORTS AND SCHOOL
What is the place of football in higher education?
BY GEORGE F. WILL
georgewill@washpost.com
Before Miami police quelled the recent riot involving more than 100University of Miami and Florida International University football players inthe Orange Bowl, fighting erupted among fans in the stands. In twomasterpieces of misdirected anxiety, the commissioner of Miami's AtlanticCoast Conference said the rioting ''has no place in college football'' andthe commissioner of FIU's Sun Belt Conference said ``there is no place inhigher education for the type of conduct exhibited.''
But the question really raised by the barbaric behavior, and by nonviolentbut nonetheless lurid behavior by some universities, is: What is the placeof high-stakes football in higher education?
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The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/24/business/24econ.html?pagewanted=print
October 24, 2006
This Time, It's Not the Economy
By EDUARDO PORTER
In many ways, the economy has not looked so good in a long time.
The price of gas at the pump has tumbled since midsummer. Unemployment hasfallen to its lowest level in more than five years. On Wall Street, the DowJones industrial average has finally returned to its glory days of the late1990's, setting records almost daily.
President Bush, in hopes of winning credit for his party's stewardship ofthe economy, is spending two days this week campaigning on the theme thatthe economy is purring. "No question that a strong economy is going to helpour candidates," Mr. Bush said in a CNBC interview yesterday, "primarilybecause they have got something to run on, they can say our economy's goodbecause I voted for tax relief."
But Republican candidates do not seem to be getting any traction from theglowing economic statistics with midterm elections just two weeks away.
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The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/24/opinion/24tues1.html?pagewanted=print
October 24, 2006
Editorial
Trying to Contain the Iraq Disaster
No matter what President Bush says, the question is not whether America canwin in Iraq. The only question is whether the United States can extricateitself without leaving behind an unending civil war that will spread morechaos and suffering throughout the Middle East, while spawning terrorismacross the globe.
The prospect of what happens after an American pullout haunts the debate onIraq. The administration, for all its hints about new strategies andtimetables, is obviously hoping to slog along for two more years and dumpthe problem on Mr. Bush's successor. This fall's election debates haveeducated very few voters because neither side is prepared to be honest aboutthe terrible consequences of military withdrawal and the very long odds against success if American troops remain.
This page opposed a needlessly hurried and unilateral invasion, even beforeit became apparent that the Bush administration was unprepared to do the jobproperly. But after it happened, we believed that America should stay andtry to clean up the mess it had made - as long as there was any conceivableroad to success.
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The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Corruption-Probes.html?pagewanted=print
October 24, 2006
U.S. Prosecutors Targeting GOP Lawmakers
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 2:16 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Public corruption cases brought by Justice Department prosecutors in Washington are on the rise, fueled in part by investigations targeting Republican lawmakers in Congress.
With the Nov. 7 elections looming, prosecutors have moved forward on investigations of three GOP lawmakers in the last month alone. And severalJustice Department officials privately hint that even more inquiries --involving Republicans and Democrats alike -- may be under way.
''We can't look at what party someone is a member of in deciding whether orot to pursue an investigation,'' Attorney General Alberto Gonzales toldreporters last week, calling government corruption prosecution one of histop priorities. ''We have to follow the evidence wherever it leads.''
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Lieberman Blasted on All Sides at Debate
By ANDREW MIGA
Associated Press Writer
October 23, 2006, 11:05 PM EDT
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Sen. Joe Lieberman sat between his Democratic andRepublican rivals in Monday's final Connecticut Senate debate -- and got itfrom both sides as well as from hecklers.
The three-term senator, who has a 17-point lead in the latest statewidepoll, struck back at Democratic challenger Ned Lamont, who has assailed himas a career politician desperate to hang onto his seat and one beholden topowerful Washington special interests.
"You constantly distort and, frankly, just tell lies," Lieberman, who ran asan independent after losing the Democratic primary to Lamont, said at theGarde Arts Center New London. "No matter how many millions of his ownfamily's money Ned Lamont spends, the polls show the people of Connecticutare not buying it. They can't be bought."
Lamont, a wealthy cable TV executive who has poured $12.7 million of his ownfortune into his campaign, bristled.
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The Washington Post
Independent Voters Favor Democrats by 2 to 1 in Poll
Iraq War Cited Most Often As Top Issue for Elections
By Dan Balz and Jon Cohen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, October 24, 2006; A01
Two weeks before the midterm elections, Republicans are losing the battlefor independent voters, who now strongly favor Democrats on Iraq and othermajor issues facing the country and overwhelmingly prefer to see them takeover the House in November, according to a new Washington Post-ABC Newspoll.
The new poll underscores how much of a drag the war threatens to be on Republican candidates in competitive races. With debate underway inWashington about possible course changes in Iraq, Americans cite the war asthe most important issue in determining their vote next month more oftenthan any other issue, and those who do favor Democrats over Republicans by76 percent to 21 percent.
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The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/23/AR2006102301036.html
Three Choices, Mr. President
The Least Bad Option on Iraq: Disengagement and Damage Control
By Richard Holbrooke
Tuesday, October 24, 2006; A19
Dear Mr. President:
As soon as the midterm elections are over -- and regardless of theiroutcome -- you will have to make the most consequential decision of yourpresidency, probably the most complicated any president has had to makesince Lyndon Johnson decided to escalate in Vietnam in 1965, and far more difficult than your decisions after Sept. 11, 2001. Then, you rallied anation in shock, overthrew the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein inIraq, and confronted Iran and North Korea over their nuclear programs --acting in all cases with self-confidence and overwhelming national approval.
Now all four projects are in peril. With far less public support, and timerunning out on your presidency, you must reverse the recent decline inAfghanistan, get North Korea back to the six-party talks, isolate a cocky,dangerous Iran that thinks events are going its way and, above all, figureout what to do with Iraq. So allow me to offer some very unsolicited suggestions on that war.
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The New York Times
October 24, 2006
Op-Ed Columnist
One Nation, Divisible
By JOHN TIERNEY
An American in Iraq has finally gotten it almost right.
J. D. Thurman, the major general who is the senior commander of U.S. forces in Baghdad, has figured out the obstacle to America's dream for Iraq.
"Part of our problem is that we want this more than they do," General Thurman told The Times's Michael Gordon, alluding to American efforts to unify Iraqis. "We need to get people to stop worrying about self and start worrying about Iraq."
That's a refreshingly candid alternative to the usual lines we hear about the Iraqi people's patriotism and resolve. General Thurman predicted that Americans will keep struggling unless Iraqis put aside their differences. Quite right - and quite depressing, because they're not about to do it, no matter what timetable the U.S. tries to impose.
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The Washington Post
Veiled Insult
By Anne Applebaum
Tuesday, October 24, 2006; A19
Quite a long time ago, having briefly joined the herd of 20-somethingbackpackers that eternally roams Southeast Asia, I found myself in Bali.Like all of the other 20-somethings, I carefully read the Lonely Planetbackpacker's guide to Indonesia and learned, among other things, that it wasconsidered improper for women to wear shorts or trousers when entering Balinese temples. I dutifully purchased a Balinese sarong and, looking awkward and foreign, wore it while visiting temples. I didn't want to causeoffense.
I thought of that long-ago incident during a visit last week to London,where a full-fledged shouting match has broken out over Muslim women whochoose to wear the veil. This particular argument had begun because ateaching assistant in Yorkshire refused to remove her veil -- a niqab ,which covers the whole body except for the eyes -- in the presence of maleteachers, which was much of the time. She was fired; she went to court --and a clutch of senior British politicians entered the fray.
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The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/23/AR2006102301033_pf.html
Why Not Obama?
By Richard Cohen
Tuesday, October 24, 2006; A19
Ancient Rome had a term for a certain political process: cursus honorum ,the honors race. It was, I am told by Anthony Everitt in his new biography,"Augustus," the process by which politicians moved up the ladder. Along theway, they were evaluated until, finally, some made it to the top. Nowadays,the system is different. All you have to do is appear on "Oprah."
I am referring, obviously and insidiously, to Barack Obama, who announced Sunday that he might run for president. This followed, of course, the aforementioned appearance on "Oprah" which I, diligent in pursuit of truth,watched. This is how I learned that Obama loves his wife and she loves himand they both love their children. Cursus honorum this is not.
Life itself -- its hard lessons -- cautions me to look with consummate cynicism on the Obama trial balloon. After all, the man has been in theUnited States Senate for a mere two years, and before that he served -- withistinction, we are told -- in the Illinois legislature, where, it seems,just staying out of jail is distinction enough.
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The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/23/AR2006102301034.html
Rising Radical Center
By E. J. Dionne Jr.
Tuesday, October 24, 2006; A19
HANCOCK, Mich. -- President Bush's six-year effort to create an enduring Republican majority based on a right-leaning coalition is on the verge of collapse. The way he tried to create it could have the unintended consequence of opening the way for an alternative majority.
This incipient Democratic alliance, while tilting slightly leftward, would plant its foundations firmly in the middle of the road, because its success depends on overwhelming support from moderate voters. That's why a Democratic victory in November -- defined as taking one or both houses of Congress -- would have effects far beyond a single election year.
The Democrats' dependence on moderate voters and moderate candidates beliesRepublican claims that a Democratic victory would bring radically liberal politics to Washington. In fact, the first imperative of Democratic congressional leaders, if their party is successful, will be finding policies, ideas and rhetoric to allow the party's progressives and moderates to get along and govern effectively together.
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The New York Times
http://select.nytimes.com/2006/10/24/opinion/24kristof.html
October 24, 2006
Op-Ed Columnist
Iraq and Your Wallet
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
For every additional second we stay in Iraq, we taxpayers will end up payingan additional $6,300.
So aside from the rising body counts and all the other good reasons to adopta timetable for withdrawal from Iraq, here's another: We are spending vastsums there that would be better spent rescuing the American health caresystem, developing alternative forms of energy and making a serious effortto reduce global poverty.
In the run-up to the Iraq war, Donald Rumsfeld estimated that the overallcost would be under $50 billion. Paul Wolfowitz argued that Iraq could useits oil to "finance its own reconstruction."
But now several careful studies have attempted to tote up various costs, andthey suggest that the tab will be more than $1 trillion - perhaps more than$2 trillion. The higher sum would amount to $6,600 per American man, womanand child.
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Keith Olberman - Link to MSNBC Video
Oct. 18: Keith Olbermann addresses the signing of the Military Commission Act into law in a special comment.
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Arizona May Use Voter-ID Law, High Court Says
Justices Overturn Ruling That Cited Pending Lawsuit
By Charles Lane
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, October 21, 2006; A03
The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that Arizona may enforce a new state lawrequiring voters to show a photo identification card at the polls onElection Day this year, despite a pending lawsuit by opponents who say themeasure will disenfranchise the poor, minorities and the elderly.
In its unanimous five-page ruling, the court did not decide whether theArizona law was constitutional. Rather, it overturned a federal appealscourt in San Francisco that would have blocked enforcement of the law untilthe opponents' suit could be decided.
That would take too long, the court said, noting that, "in view of theimpending election," Arizona needed "clear guidance."
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Kerry is pressured to share campaign wealth
Well-funded Democrats get last-minute appeals
By Rick Klein and Michael Kranish, Globe Staff | October 21, 2006
WASHINGTON -- As he campaigns extensively on behalf of House andSenate candidates, Senator John F. Kerry is under increasing pressure fromDemocratic Party leaders and activists to tap his $14 million campaignaccount and spread the money around to help the party's efforts.
Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, has given less than $15,000 to theDemocratic Senatorial Campaign Committee since the beginning of 2005. Thoughhe has helped candidates in a variety of other ways, his last majorfinancial contribution to the DSCC came a month after he lost the 2004presidential election, when he used $1 million in leftover campaign funds tohelp the committee retire its debt.
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