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...bloc affiliated with Iraq's Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, benefited from his action against the militias. In Basra, messages of national unity played better than did religious or sectarian appeals. "We have a new breed of politicians who can take Basra into a new phase," says Emad al-Battat, representative to Basra of Iraq's most senior Shi'ite cleric, Sayyed Ali al-Sistani. "The fact that Iraqis chose secular politicians over religious ones does not mean Iraq has become any less religious. But the top priority of the Iraqi people is national unity." He adds, "The politicians made...
...Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, reaped benefits from his strong action against the militias; in Basra, messages of national unity played better with the electorate than did religious or sectarian appeals. "We have a new breed of politicians who can take Basra into a new phase," says Emad al-Battat, the representative to Basra of Iraq's most senior Shi'a cleric, Sayyed Ali al-Sistani. "The fact that Iraqis chose secular politicians over religious ones does not mean Iraq has become any less religious. But the top priority of the Iraqi people is national unity...
...help is a hearing aid. But only 20% to 25% of those who could benefit from hearing aids actually own them. That can be a tragedy, since studies show that older people with untreated hearing loss suffer disproportionately from depression, anxiety, paranoia, emotional turmoil and reduced social activity. Brenda Battat, 58, acting executive director of Self Help for Hard of Hearing People (SHHH), with headquarters in Bethesda, Md., knows firsthand the psychological costs of going without hearing aids. "I was the queen of denial," she recalls. "It took me a long time to start wearing hearing aids full time...
Then there's the vanity issue. "I have a real love-hate relationship with my hearing aids. I wear them because I need them. But they're clunky, they're ugly, they look prosthetic," says Battat of SHHH. "I'm longing for Calvin Klein to start designing hearing aids." Many people who have tried hearing aids before the technology surge of the past 10 years found the discomfort and embarrassment of wearing them outweighed the benefit they provided. Bad experience can be contagious as well. "In audiology we say that if someone likes their hearing aids, they tell five people...
...acquiring the microwaves in all the dining halls, for summer storage, for the used book sale every spring and fall with Phillips Brooks House, for all the social events, for increasing the amount of lighting at night in the yard as well as in the Cambridge Common? David Battat '91 met with the Cambridge City Council a few years ago and took several council members around the Common one night to show them just how dark and unsafe it actually was, whereupon the city of Cambridge installed new lighting everywhere and razed all the bushes where muggers could hide...