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...Ken Wapman, 45, manager at a Bay Area software firm, and Margee, 45, a therapist, had been married 18 years when they signed up for Schnarch's program in 2001. Busy with their jobs and three kids, their marriage was somewhere between O.K. and icky. "The relationship was sustainable but not very satisfying," says Ken. And their sex life, he says, "was like your commute. You could practically do it with your eyes closed"--er, don't a lot of people do it that way?--"but you don't really look forward...
...Schnarch approach immediately appealed to Ken. "I liked that he didn't pull any punches," says Ken, who used to disagree with his wife and others just for the sake of it. "I used to use more imperative-type language. Schnarch helped me to think about developing more collaborative alliances." Working with Schnarch after trying other therapists, says Ken, was like "jumping into a Ferrari compared to driving a Toyota Celica...
...first the Crucible was a bit searing for Margee. "He forces you to see things in yourself that you haven't wanted to see. I used to think Ken's job was to take care of me by knowing how I felt. That's an idea embedded in the culture." Now, Margee says, she has learned to take care of herself. "I'm not dumping anything on him; I have worked my side of the issue. There is less unresolved tension. As a result, I feel love and want to move toward...
While the White House wants to paint him as too liberal, in the Democratic primary race, the shots are coming from the other direction. Dean talks a lot about Bush's chumminess with "Ken Lay and the boys" and tax-dodging "corporations who move their headquarters to Bermuda and their jobs to China." But the Boston Globe reported last month that as Governor, Dean expanded a complicated tax shelter for captive insurance--in which companies set up specialized subsidiaries that provide them with below-market insurance coverage. Enron was among 500 companies to take advantage of it, and though...
Rensselaer athletic director Ken Ralph said after the Harvard-Rensselaer game last Saturday that about 70 percent of schools are prepared to vote against Proposal...