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...Wolfson was trying to promote same-sex marriage, Matt Daniels was becoming convinced that it would damage the institution of the family. Daniels, 40, runs the Alliance for Marriage, which wrote the Federal Marriage Amendment now before Congress. Daniels comes to the issues of marriage and family breakdown from a very personal place. His father walked out when he was 2, leaving his mom to work as a secretary. One night when Daniels was in third grade, she was assaulted on her way home. "She ends up with a broken back, disabled, on welfare, depressed," says Daniels, trailing...
Daniels got a scholarship to Dartmouth, but after college he had to return home to care for his mother, who was dying of congestive heart failure. (She passed away in 1990.) During that period, he began volunteering in homeless shelters, where he says he saw the consequences of family breakdown, including welfare dependency and youth crime. "And it's about that time that we began to see the court activity in Vermont," he recalls. "Already we had seen it in Hawaii." Daniels was deeply troubled by the prospect of gay marriage, he says, "because of the unique combination of gifts...
...know for whose benefit it was done." He was also worried about the safety of his family. "From now on," he said, "if my granddaughter was to have her knee scratched I would accuse Mr. Putin." The state-dominated media dismissed Rybkin's story. He had suffered a nervous breakdown or had simply been drinking in Kiev, they suggested. Others claimed he was being used by Boris Berezovsky, the London-based billionaire and bitter enemy of Putin who has been Rybkin's patron since the mid-'90s. "Rybkin is not just finished as a politician," said analyst Andronik Migranyan...
...report released yesterday included a breakdown of undergraduate grades from the 1985-1986 academic year to the 2002-2003 year...
DIED. JANET FRAME, 79, whose intense explorations of mental illness made her one of New Zealand's most acclaimed authors; of leukemia; in Dunedin, New Zealand. After suffering a breakdown that was misdiagnosed as schizophrenia, she spent eight years in two mental hospitals; she was about to undergo a lobotomy when a hospital worker read that her work had won a literary prize. She went on to publish 12 novels, as well as poetry, story collections and a three-volume autobiography...