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Speakers at the retreat in late July, which drew 165 families, included Matt Daniels of the Alliance for Marriage, and an immigration panel featured tax-cut leader Grover Norquist and Hugh Hewitt, a conservative radio host and blogger. Reflecting Legacy's aim for social impact, Gary Haugen of International Justice Mission talked about heading the U.N. genocide investigation in Rwanda. Audience members rose to describe a trip they had taken there. The weekend ended in the Cheyenne Lodge with a family worship service led by Mark Brewer of California's Bel Air Presbyterian Church. He was Ronald Reagan's last...
...says Matt Shaw, 32. "People are always stopping; I guess it breaks up the journey a bit for them." In the past 57 days, Shaw's journey has rarely stopped for long. On March 31, the registered nurse set out from his Ringwood home in suburban Melbourne with the aim of walking clockwise around Highway 1. "It's something I wanted to do before I got too much older and couldn't physically do it," he explains. "Friends thought I was insane, and family were a bit worried...
...these parts, some smaller communities have banned alcohol with varying success. But few people think that would work in Borroloola. For now, the aim is harm minimization. Since a general community meeting last March, the town has been trying to prepare an alcohol management plan. Money from the N.T. government has yet to reach the local council to pay the consultants needed to draw up a scheme; the demand for such social services in the Territory is so great that Borroloola is just another community in the queue. The Territory's Darwin-based head of Racing, Gaming and Licensing, Elizabeth...
...Life can be grueling for kids on the surrounding outstations; parents often take them for extended visits to relatives or for ceremonies and they miss large chunks of learning. Few students achieve anything beyond the most basic education standards. Although, spurred by teachers, some at Yiyili are about to aim higher. One of Boyle's scourges is passive welfare, in particular the indigenous work-for-the-dole known as the Community Development Employment Program. "At 16 they're eligible for the CDEP," the principal says. "The participants are not supervised. There's no project officer or coordinator for these things...
...column on Iran's role in the Middle East conflict [July 24], Joe Klein wove speculation and conjecture into a grand theory that it is all George W. Bush's fault. We are at war with a fanatic totalitarian movement, the aim of which is nothing less than the destruction of the West. Yes, Bush might have made many mistakes, but does Klein really believe that without Bush in office, Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, would act more rationally...