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MARRIAGE--WHAT AN ABOMINATION! LOVE--YES, BUT NOT MARRIAGE. --George Moore Some gay activists spurn the idea of same-sex marriage, suggesting that homosexuals are buying into the corrupt ideology of an outworn institution. Writing in the New York Times, author Frank Browning maintained, "The problem is with the shape of marriage itself. What we might be better off seeking is civic and legal support for different kinds of families that can address the emotional, physical and financial obligation of contemporary life." This is the idea that endorsing marriage is endorsing the traditions of a society that explicitly rejects homosexuality...
...Washington-based organization and strategic coalitions, its many alliances with state and local groups, and its many service-oriented programs. In the District of Columbia, the Defense Fund has established City Lights, which works with severely troubled adolescents. At what was once the Tennessee farm of Roots author Alex Haley, the Fund conducts leadership training sessions. And, often in partnership with Junior Leagues, it runs public-education programs throughout the country, exposing business and community leaders to the problems of the young. In the mid-1980s, the Children's Defense Fund helped focus national attention on the problem of teen...
...truism that children can't vote, but Sylvia Ann Hewlett, author of When the Bough Breaks: The Costs of Neglecting Our Children, has discovered that their parents don't vote either. In the last national election, only 39% of adults with children at home cast a ballot, as compared with 61% of the elderly. During the 1950s, says Hewlett, who runs a nonprofit organization aimed at getting parents to the polls, 65% of parents voted...
...sign of a good idea is that you think it's been done before. But in Kennedy & Nixon (Simon & Schuster; 377 pages; $25), author Christopher Matthews, a newspaper columnist and television pundit, places a frame around these epic 20th century figures for the first time, revealing in this smart, well-researched, readable book that the two cold warriors had more in common than one may suspect. Matthews' thesis is that both Kennedy and Nixon secretly despised the Establishment--Nixon because he felt excluded from it, Kennedy because he felt above it. Most of all they were united by their ambition...
Until they faced off in 1960, Nixon and Kennedy were cautiously friendly (though not as chummy as the author would like us to believe). For eight years their offices were across the hall from each other in the Senate Office building. Kennedy invited Nixon to his staff parties, where the Californian was a conspicuous wallflower. What seemed to come so easily to Kennedy--charm, good humor, small talk--were impossible skills for the perennially awkward Nixon. In the 1960 election both men seemed to underestimate each other. Nixon thought Kennedy too green to be President, while Kennedy could not imagine...