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...Michelle Obama infuriates and is targeted by conservatives because she is truthful and candid and does not mince words. I say, More power to her. Richard McCurdy, Burbank, California...
Michelle Obama infuriates and is targeted by conservatives because she is truthful and candid and does not mince words. I say, More power to her. Richard McCurdy, BURBANK, CALIF...
...Afterward, I approached Dinock - a splendidly candid and effusive woman - and she told a less careful version. "Look, I'm 38 years old. I'm Caucasian. I've got no kids. No one cares about people like me," she said. When I asked her what she actually did for health care, she laughed and said, "I'm on the K-Y jelly plan. I get it up the you-know-where...
...authorities likely to be pleased by the muttering among parents about bringing in lawyers. After the quake, some government officials have been, by Chinese standards, remarkably candid. Lin Qiang, vice inspector of the Sichuan provincial education department, told Chinese news service Xinhua "If we educational officials hadn't left loopholes for corruption, the collapsed buildings could have been as solid [as those that remained standing]." He added that "Seeking truth is more important than losing face." Such sentiments, one Chinese lawyer told TIME, "all but invite the parents to keep pressing on this issue, to do whatever they...
That realization is sinking in with some socially conscious rabbis. In Febuary, Rabbi Meir Kessler from Kiryat Sefer called two late-night meetings in which 3,000 parents were urged to warn their children that even men in beards and hats are capable of evil. The rabbi's candid sermon has stirred debate among the shuttered Haredim. One stunned participant told reporters that "not since Moses" had a rabbi spoken publicly on such forbidden sexual topics. The spate of abuse cases prompted Israel's chief Ashkenazi rabbi, Yona Metzger, to call on his fellow religious leaders "to vomit these parents...