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Finally, The Smart Choice should do no harm. Yes—despite everything else—this is still most important aspect of all. If a running mate has some dark secret in his past—a mistress, a felony, rehab—he will be a liability. Unless the choice is almost inhumanly scandal-free, nothing else matters. Senator Kerry, you could object to this rule, you could (rightly) argue that it drives many qualified, capable people out of public life. But ignore it at your peril...
...reason that so many are devastated by extra-maritial sexual relationships is because we misuse and degrade our humanity by trespassing the bounds in which the gift of our sexuality was given. We exchange our inherently human gift, the image in which we were created, for a dark, destructive emptiness. Sexual relationships necessarily involve the communion of the whole person, and many discover first-hand the terrible consequences of its misuse...
...slumbering football hero, was commissioned by the gallery and shot in a single take one afternoon in January as the soccer star enjoyed a post-training siesta in his Madrid hotel room. The monitor is positioned so that he is lying at eye level, and since the room is dark, we see only his head and his naked torso, light blue sheets covering his waist. It is amazingly intimate, as if, yes, you yourself are curled up in bed with Beckham. I think I can speak for all 12 of us in the room when I say that this...
Apparently though, that’s not enough for most Americans. Across the North American continent, more than 4,000 drive-in theaters have gone dark since the boom years of the 50s. Arizona used to have 49 theaters in operation; today it has four. The decline in Massachusetts (once home to four of America’s earliest drive-ins) has been just as severe—plunging 94 percent in the past five decades from 90 cinemas to just five today. It would be tragic if every one of these theaters were to close its, well, front gates?...
Apparently though, that’s not enough for most Americans. Across the North American continent, more than 4,000 drive-in theaters have gone dark since the boom years of the 50s. Arizona used to have 49 theaters in operation; today it has four. The decline in Massachusetts (once home to four of America’s earliest drive-ins) has been just as severe—plunging 94 percent in the past five decades from 90 cinemas to just five today. It would be tragic if every one of these theaters were to close its, well, front gates?...