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...India's response is hardly atypical. Most governments have a skeleton or three in their own closets, and the standard reaction is to strenuously deflect attention onto their neighbor's closet in a game of moral musical chairs. (A comprehensive discussion on slavery, for example, may require mention of the fact that most of the slaves captured on Africa's east coast went not to the New World, but to Arab countries, but the art of the deal here is to throw your weight behind a popular cause in exchange for having your own sins passed over...
Meet Gabriela and Nicole Unguez. Last winter their tiny bedroom was such a wreck--toys and books blanketing the floor, clothes spilling out of the closet--that their mother Rebecca laughingly entered the twins in a contest for "America's Messiest Kid's Room." To her great shame, they...
...conducts parent-education classes in Seattle, explains the school-age child's thinking: "If I'm in grade school, I pretty much know how I want my bedroom to run efficiently. So if I think it makes more sense to put my shoes along the wall than in the closet, parents need to respect that." Kids this age still need to be reminded to keep their rooms neat (15 minutes on a kitchen timer can make light work of the chore), but they also need the freedom to make mistakes. If you redo their imperfect housekeeping efforts, says time-management...
...Mexican immigrants working in the U.S. This proposal has brought the issue of the undocumented worker into the light. The unprivileged workers who impact Americans' daily lives deserve the rights and living conditions that most U.S. workers enjoy. Let's force one of America's shames out of the closet and keep the issue in the light. RODOLFO CONTRERAS Houston...
...Said, She Said After a child-support suit was settled, Russian model Angela Ermakova broke her silence last week to describe her baby-producing broom-closet tryst with tennis stud Boris Becker