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...Common ground is not about compromising or trying to find a compromise position on abortion. The challenge is for people to talk ... and find their overlapping beliefs or concerns [while] being very clear about their differences," said Mary E. Jacksteit, director of the Network, in her introductory remarks...
Despite these points of agreement, Cohen and Swallow Prior were very clear about their differences, beginning the panel by stating several of their opposing positions...
Nevertheless, it's clear why Sanford squished J.T.T. into the role anyway. Plot aside, the movie is essentially a Jonathan Taylor Thomas peep show riding on Thomas' teen idol/pinup boy status. The film provides us with plenty of closeups of J.T.T.'s tanned face and blue eyes, but I'll Be Home for Christmas clearly shows that you can't judge a book by its cover; Thomas never rises above the "I am trying to be funny," hamming-it-up style he perfected week after week on "Home Improvement...
Lastly Knowles, himself an award winning chemist, says "We must make some real investments in science." Exactly what shape those "investments" will take is not yet clear. Knowles says they might be buildings, but will probably also focus on strengthening new fields, like genomics...
Poverty and destitution are indeed huge problems. Why take a toothpick to clear them, when what is really required are sledgehammers and bulldozers? The best intentioned "social worker" in a non-governmental organization would be lucky to count even one person he has truly lifted out of poverty. A single industrialist like Henry Ford, by starting the first assembly line and doubling workers' wages to $5 a day, started a trend that empowered millions and created a whole new middle-class in America--even while creating a new customer base to buy his Model T's and amassing a huge...