Relationship

Nursing home residents with proper glasses enjoy life more and are less depressed than those with uncorrected vision problems, a study has found. Obvious? Perhaps, but nursing home residents have three to 15 times higher rates of uncorrected vision impairment than seniors living independently. Before testing their vision, researchers led by Cynthia Owsley, professor of ophthalmology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, scored 150 nursing home residents on scales of quality of life and depression.

DENVER -- Denver oil billionaire Philip Anschutz has given few media interviews since the mid-1970s. Friends describe him as intensely private. But Anschutz will step into the spotlight during the next few weeks as a key witness for former Qwest chief executive Joseph P. Nacchio, who is on trial for alleged insider trading. "There's really no place to hide in that courtroom," said Tony Leffert, a former federal prosecutor and a lawyer with Robinson, Waters & O'Dorisio in Denver. "Nobody likes to testify in a case like this."

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- John Desko points at the framed photograph of Jim Brown's last lacrosse game at Syracuse University that dominates the left wall of his office."

SECRETARY of State Madeleine K. Albright's success in bringing Syrian dictator Hafez el Assad and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak into high-level negotiations made use of momentum.It follows Mr. Barak's suspension of major construction at Israeli settlements in the West Bank. This welcome and overdue act was a positive signal to the Palestinian Authority. It was also less than the blanket construction freeze that Palestinians were demanding and leaves Israeli-Palestinian talks still suspended, though nearer resumption.

Kenneth Starr's quest for lawyer's notes threatens vital 0) trustsThe request by Kenneth Starr to invade the attorney-client privilege between the late Vincent Foster and his lawyer is truly inappropriate ("Court cool to Starr's request," June 9).As a practicing psychologist for the past 38 years, I have participated in the process of confidentiality between client and professional. The purpose of this process is obviously to allow an atmosphere for the client to fully trust the professional with anything that the client wishes to convey.

MY LOVE AFFAIR with Bill Clinton is over.I know all of you were waiting to hear from the president on this, but since he appears to have trouble saying what he means and meaning what he says, I have decided to come forward and state for the record that my relationship with Bill Clinton, begun in 1992, is over.I now believe that his cheating did not end when I elected him president -- I and the rest of the 8 percent plurality of women voters who put him over the top in 1992.I and the rest of the female electorate that chose to ignore his marital history because we believed he believed government should do more to help people.

Q. My husband has a 14-year-old daughter from a relationship that ended six years ago. He and I got together shortly after that.His daughter has blamed me and her mother's boyfriend for preventing her parents from getting back together. I understand her feelings and have not pushed for any relationship between the two of us.However, my husband and I have a 4-month-old son - and his daughter will have nothing to do with her baby brother. She has not even seen him yet.I'd like for my son to have a relationship with his sister.

Because I have chosen the path of truth, I have been vilified by spokesmen for the Administration I proudly serve as a political appointee. The very same Administration which is now trying to portray me as a disgruntled White House staffer, with a penchant for involving myself in scandals, has promoted me twice, given me a political appointment overseeing a critical public relations program at the Pentagon, consistently given me the highest possible annual...

Hillary Rodham Clinton is standing steadfastly by her man, but should she be? We put the question to people who tackle the issue of infidelity during the course of their workday -- from hairdressers who dispense marital advice along with styling gel to divorce lawyers who get clients ready to take off their gloves in court. Here's what they had to say:NOCraig B. Spicer, private detective for Intercept Investigations, Owings Mills: "People who commit adultery do it again. It's not like you find God and you're cured.

When I was Monica Lewinsky's age, I knew a guy who knew another guy who said he was sleeping with Miss February 1964. Who knew if he was telling the truth? It so happened, Miss February worked as a bunny at the Playboy Club on Light Street, so at least the guy had geography supporting his story.All of us were caught between wanting to believe him and finding it too fantastic for words. To get near Miss February was to enter another league; it was like kissing Marilyn Monroe. Outwardly, we all sneered.

(500) Days of Summer: *** ( 3 STARS) The opening insists this movie is not a love story, and maybe that's right. Maybe it's more about timing than love. But that time-worn emotion, not to mention maturity, grace and wonder, all play key roles in this engaging variation on the relationship film, featuring finely nuanced performances from Joseph Gordon-Levitt (whose character, Tom, is ready for a relationship) and Zooey Deschanel (whose character, Summer, isn't). OK, it's too cute at times, and the ending is a bit of a feel-good sellout, but much of the movie (including the year's best musical number)

DEAR HARRIETTE: I was involved with this lovely lady in a short-term relationship. As it turned out, we went our separate ways, but remained friends, sharing the small details of life. Well, I thought I had a true friend, but soon found out differently. After moving into another relationship, as did my friend, we would share jokes on the Internet; but on one fateful day, I shared one with her and my new girlfriend. When my ex discovered my girlfriend's e-mail address, she pounced - sending old e-mails about our past to my new lady.

Stop Kiss, Dignity Players' current production, traces the evolving relationship of two young, single women pursuing careers in New York City. Relatively early in this one-act play, the audience is forced to consider the violence that results from a stranger witnessing the first tentative kiss between the two women. Diana Son's 1998 play allows us to trace the progress of both women toward independence and self-discovery. They set out to make life commitments that become more pressing after their frightening confrontation with unprovoked violence.

Outsourcing - going outside your business for services you need - is one of the best ways for a small business to get ahead. But using outsourcing to your best advantage does not happen automatically. Some outsourcing relationships can fail, costing your business time and money while a new relationship is established. The key to outsourcing success for a small business is to go about it professionally. Out of pure necessity, small businesses started outsourcing long before there was even a name for it. An outside specialist can do tasks including payroll, building Web sites, managing computer networks, handling telephone sales and credit card processing.

WASHINGTON - Russia's military offensive into Georgia has jolted the Bush administration's relationship with Moscow, senior officials said yesterday, forcing a wholesale reassessment of American dealings with Russia and jeopardizing talks on issues from halting Iran's nuclear ambitions to reducing strategic arsenals and cooperation on missile defenses. The conflict punctuated a stark turnabout in the administration's view of Vladimir V. Putin, the president-turned-prime minister whom President Bush has repeatedly described as a trustworthy friend.

It was Saturday, May 21, 1988. I was 20 years young. He was one year my senior. We had dated for a year and a half. I was about to make the biggest decision I had ever made in my life. And I felt comfortable that I knew what I was doing. I thought that I had a good idea what such a major commitment would essentially mean. I also thought that, with time as my friend, I would eventually figure out all of the intricacies of this thing called marriage that I did not know. Isn't that what most of us, if we are honest, do as human beings?

As news of the recent indiscretions of a soon-to-be ex-governor of New York circulated this week, a recent post on cheat-proofing your relationship seemed to be particularly relevant. So I e-mailed the woman who inspired the post, Stephany Alexander, founder of woman savers.com, a source for women on infidelity and cheating. A few weeks ago, she wrote a post titled "10 Tips To Infidelity-Proof Your Relationship," in which she, quite obviously, listed ways to strengthen your relationship and protect against infidelity.

I'm really glad I don't date Jessica Simpson. Such heresy would never have crossed these lips not long ago, but I'm starting to think there just might be too many obstacles in the way. This became clear last week when OK! magazine reported that Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo had burned the pop tart by dumping her after his team's early exit from the NFL playoffs. The next day, however, TMZ.com reported that the couple was still together and presumably happy. How could a relationship possibly survive when the public is constantly checking the temperature and forecasting its future?

In a meeting hardly anyone could have imagined a few years back, BALCO founder Victor Conte and World Anti-Doping Agency chairman Dick Pound sat down yesterday for their first face-to-face discussion about doping in sports. During the two-hour meeting in New York, they didn't discuss specific cases or name names, but had what both termed a frank conversation they hope will lead to a more productive relationship. "We talked about ... his thoughts on how we could get better at what we do," Pound said.

The American Red Cross dismissed its president and chief executive, Mark W. Everson, yesterday because of his "personal relationship with a subordinate employee." He had been in office for only six months. The news was another blow to an organization that has struggled to overcome criticism of its performance after Hurricane Katrina and other disasters, and it stunned the organization's employees, as well as the nonprofit world at large. "Although this is difficult and disappointing news for the Red Cross community, the organization remains strong and the life-saving mission of the American Red Cross will go forward," Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, chairman of the Red Cross board, said in a statement.