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...voices that argue otherwise tell us more about our politically correct culture than they do about what children really need. The fact remains that gender matters--perhaps nowhere more than in regard to child rearing. The unique value of fathers has been explained by Dr. Kyle Pruett of Yale Medical School in his book Fatherneed: Why Father Care Is as Essential as Mother Care for Your Child. Pruett says dads are critically important simply because "fathers do not mother." Psychology Today explained in 1996 that "fatherhood turns out to be a complex and unique phenomenon with huge consequences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two Mommies Is One Too Many | 12/12/2006 | See Source »

...which time children might watch and be influenced by them. Certainly much has been done to try to close these illegal pages, but with 70,000 videos uploaded onto YouTube every day by people all over the world, it's pretty difficult to check that the videos are politically correct, don't contain bad language and aren't brutal. But maybe there are no inventions in the world that are purely positive. Tobias Hubel Augsburg, Germany Win the War! Save String! time reported that American troops in Iraq are using Silly String to detect trip wires affixed to bombs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christianity, Islam And The Pope | 12/12/2006 | See Source »

...should be free to design its own destiny. By giving the Web site an endowment and organizing a crack team of for-profit business school students, the UC’s Web site will finally become a true power player by consolidating power until it finally assumes its correct role as the hegemonic ruler of the world, er, we mean, the trusty student Web portal...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: It’s About the Web Site | 12/11/2006 | See Source »

...going to say whether that's correct or not. There are problems in the Sunni neighbourhoods. The perception is that they are not getting what their Shi'ite brethren is getting. Most of what has occurred is slanted toward the Shi'ites. Their perception is that it's not a government of national unity. That's a real issue, with many of the ministries. That has to be fixed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A General Returns From Iraq: "I Don't Feel Like I'm Leaving on a High Note" | 12/9/2006 | See Source »

...have slaughtered the Indians.” It is no consolation that this was meant to refer to an athletic team, as the further dehumanization of the “Indian” moniker—no matter how tongue-in-cheek—only contributes to the politically correct debate that the author so sarcastically laments. Furthermore, the examples cited compare Native Americans to animals and, as is the case of the Trojan mascot, insinuate that real native peoples no longer exist, only their descendents. This type of characterization and generalization, in addition to the hostile tone in which...

Author: By April D. Youpee-roll | Title: Column Insensitive to Native American Community | 12/8/2006 | See Source »

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