Word: america
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...just plain involved. She's being coy about the details, but she is behaving amazingly girlishly. She goes a bit gooey when she talks about the nameless "him" for whom, she confesses, she is making a compilation tape so he can think of her while she is away in America. And like regular women everywhere--women who aren't, say, feminist icons who have written life-changing books like The Female Eunuch--she confesses, "I'm waiting for the phone to ring." It's not that Greer advocates such behavior--"I think it's ridiculous that I won't ring...
Thank you for bringing to the public's attention the incredible uses of the Internet for family history and genealogical research [FAMILY, April 19]. However, I take issue with the statement that genealogy is America's "latest obsession." Americans have always had a strong interest in genealogy. Perhaps it is because we still regard ourselves as such a new people, and we are seeking to prove our deep roots elsewhere. ROBERT S. DAVIS JR., DIRECTOR Family and Regional History Program Wallace State College Hanceville...
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross has delineated five stages of reaction to death, from denial to acceptance, but in America there is a sixth: litigation. Just days after the Columbine shootings, the father of Isaiah Shoels, a slain 18-year-old, made a call to attorney Geoffrey Fieger, famous for defending Jack Kevorkian, about representing his family. No suits have been filed yet, and Colorado bars lawyers from soliciting clients for 30 days after an incident. But it is probable that a wave of lawsuits is coming from the victims' families and from those injured in the shootings. What is less certain...
...grew more shrill, my son grew more sullen. I was rejecting something he loved. And he recognized my prejudice as uninformed. I was also violating a basic rule of parenting: take an interest in what your kid is doing--especially when his tastes diverge from yours. Every parent in America got a refresher course on that rule April...
...confab's main product, determined in advance by White House staffers, is the kickoff of a new surgeon general's study of violence in America. Building on similar studies done in 1972 and 1985, it will take a look at the roles of popular culture, peer pressure, mental illness and the availability of guns in teen shootings, and doubtless won't be completed until the issue (and this President) have long since moved on. President Clinton and his aspiring veep are caught between defenders of the First Amendment (the Hollywood types who donate to the Democrats) and those...