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...believed in "sweat equity" and the "theology of enough." It took a while, however, for Millard Fuller, who died on Feb. 3 at age 74, to develop that selfless philosophy into Habitat for Humanity, which he co-founded with his wife Linda...
...encomiums that followed his passing last June, of a heart attack at age 71, what has been conveniently missed is the fact that, for the past few years of his life, the entertainment world didn't pay much attention to George Carlin. Unlike his great contemporary Richard Pryor - whose slow decline from multiple sclerosis prompted years of tributes and early eulogies, before his death in December 2005 - Carlin had the bad form to keep working to the very end, maintaining a nearly full schedule of concert appearances, drawing crowds of devoted (mostly baby-boomer) fans, continuing to come up with...
...biological evidence was not presented in court—and has since been destroyed. Nevertheless, even if Sullivan committed the crime, he did not deserve the punishment he received. No 13-year old child should ever be sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole. At such a young age, adolescents’ brains are very much still in a process of development. Young children should not be held culpable as adult criminals would be in many cases because children’s reasoning capabilities are not fully developed. This is one reason why young children should often...
When I began writing about Washington more than 30 years ago, it was a fairly modest town. There were lobbyists; there always had been - just read Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner's hilarious novel The Gilded Age. But in the 1980s, I began to notice that the lobbies of the buildings where the lobbyists lived had gone all marble and melodramatic. A new class of steak houses hit town: now you can buy a Kobe beefsteak for $175 in some joints. The limos multiplied; McMansions sprouted in the near suburbs. In a way, Daschle - a very decent...
...Nujood's services would be welcome. Despite Yemen's laws against child marriage, about 52% of Yemen's girls marry before the age of 18, often as the second or third wives of far older men. Worldwide, child marriage has been slow to change, according to UNICEF's "State of the World's Children" report released last month. About 49% of South Asian women in their early 20s were married before the age of 18, according to statistics gathered by UNICEF, which links early marriage to high rates of infant death and maternal mortality in very poor countries. "Often families...