Word: appealingness
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Aside from an appealing sense of rarity, multiple births carry a nostalgic whiff of the idea of a big, sprawling family at a time when the American nuclear family is largely shrinking. Shows like TLC's Duggar's Big Family Album, on which an Arkansas couple flaunts their 17 (!) children...
1786 was a tumultuous time for Burns; in addition to his newfound success, it was also the year that his lover, Mary Campell - for whom he penned his famous "Highland Mary" - died while giving birth to his child. Not that he had much time to mourn; the previous year, he...
Obama sought to avoid creating such political theater by waiting to issue his repeal of the policy until the annual face-off between pro-life and pro-choice advocates on Jan. 22 was over and by doing it out of sight of the cameras. He observed the anniversary of Roe...
• A member of the Democratic Blue Dog Coalition, a group of 49 members of Congress who espouse fiscal conservatism with a mission of "appealing to the mainstream values of the American public."
And for Obama, who voted for the border-fence bill back in 2006, the barrier may be best described as a big potential headache. Opponents are already appealing to him to halt construction and re-evaluate the project. But so far, the new Administration has given no indication that it...