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PAS: The truth hurts

Cover Story | In the legal guillotine of divorce, wives and husbands often lash out at one another as state law cleaves one flesh into two again. But where child custody is at stake, the fighting turns even uglier. With no Solomon to secure a child's best interests, parents often tear apart children emotionally by telling them nasty things about each other. That's "parental alienation," a term widely accepted in family courts. But "parental alienation syndrome" is a different animal. And among

Little girls lost?

Cover Story | Embraced in family courts across the country, a controversial "syndrome" may be placing abused children at risk

In this issue: "PAS: The truth hurts," Feb. 8, 2003

Features

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One man's trash...

National |  Simson Garfinkel once forgot to clean out an old hard drive and his father discovered his diary. The mistake led him to try an experiment: buy dozens of used…

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Slammed

National |  One year after Bill Gates declared that security was top priority at Microsoft, the company is recovering from an attack that crippled thousands of computers,

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Easy money

National |  Three bogus applicants earning bogus degrees at a bogus college almost collected $55,000 in student loans. Congressional investigators probing the Department…

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They don't recall

National |  Feathers are flying in the 2.5-million-member Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). For months, some conservatives have pressed for an unprecedented special session…

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It's the law

National |  A copy of the Ten Commandments can remain on display with framed copies of American historical documents in the Mercer County, Ky., courthouse, federal judge…

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From 'down under' to 'over there'

International |  Australians resist head of state John Howard's determination to be named in the "coalition of the willing"

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Left-coast libertines

National |  The nation's first officially recognized homosexual state legislative caucus last week came out in California. At its first press conference, the new…

Dispatches

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Quotables

The liberals basically spent the last 40 years saying, 'Let's hear the voice of the Third World.' And now they've heard it, and they'd like the Third World to…

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Between the lines

What President Bush said, and didn't say, on key issues

Reviews

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Clearing the air

Culture |  Actress Patricia Heaton stands up against language that was once confined to locker rooms and pool halls

Voices

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Whose peers?

Sometimes I'm happy to take the elitist position

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Mailbag

Towering values Thank you so much for Gene Edward Veith's wonderful article on The Two Towers ("Lord of the box office," Jan. 11). As a Lord of the Rings fan…

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Progressing to the past

Once a cause of family problems, capitalism may now be a solution

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Make up your mind

Go for marriage and commitment, in due time

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