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According to President Bush, faith-based initiatives, which are religiously-affiliated programs that aim to support the poor and needy, deserve federal support to further their charitable works. Unfortunately, these programs have more on their agenda than simply helping the needy of America—explicitly or otherwise, they project their religious beliefs and agendas on those they help...
...aim is not for the players to absorb a few basics, but to instill in them a knowledge of business that will help them with a larger plan,” Kester added...
After showcasing some of his older work, Rees read from the first set of “Get Your War On” strips he ever published, taking aim at Bush’s war on terror...
...disagreements later on. The remaining cases are settled in what insiders call "the shadow of the law" - that is, in the offices of lawyers and mediators, many of whom, based on experience, tend to advise the male client not to waste his money pursuing custody or, indeed, to aim too high in terms of time with his children. In Australia, only 12% of children from broken families live with their dad; for a variety of reasons, about a quarter see their father once a year or less. Commonly, men settle for the standard consolation of every second weekend and half...
...Ultimately, the success of a system depends to a large degree on the attitudes of the people within it. Boiled down, most of the government's reforms have a single, extraordinarily ambitious aim: to encourage separating spouses to be reasonable in their negotiations with each other. And there's the rub. In the emotional storm that is the aftermath to breakup, many lack both the capacity for magnanimity and the clear-headedness to focus on the best interests of another person, even their own child. As Bryant said in a recent speech, couples who appear in her court tend...