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...also donate to UNICEF (1-800-4-UNICEF), Direct Relief International, or the American Red Cross (1-800-RED-CROSS). For more national organizations, check out this fairly comprehensive compilation...
Cott responded that she had indeed explained monogamy as the “American way of marrying,” which has always been viewed in direct opposition to polygamy, as evidenced by the federal government’s 19th century campaign against the Church of the Latter-Day Saints...
...amassed $7 million on 1,873 screens - not bad at all. It managed a higher per-screen average than Leap Year, the widely reviled rom-com that sends Amy Adams to Ireland to find true love and get very wet and muddy. Leap Year took in $9.2 million. The direct competition for Adams, who played Julie in Julie & Julia, was in another romantic comedy about a woman who must choose between her old beau and a newcomer: It's Complicated, starring Meryl Streep (Julia in Julie & Julia). That one grossed $11 million in its third weekend. (See what we learned...
...counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, suggested in a briefing afterward that there was little direct blame to be apportioned. "This was not the failure of a single individual or a single organization," Brennan said, calling the failures "systemic." But a moment later, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs suggested that such discipline - which he termed corrective action - may still be forthcoming. Explaining that Thursday's release focused narrowly on implementing the preliminary review, Gibbs said, "We don't have any announcements other than that today...
...when you repatriate [detainees] to a government that is competent, they keep an eye on them. In Yemen, the government has less capacity [to do so]. We'd be negligent if we were ignoring that." And the Administration hasn't. Barack Obama's top counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, took direct control of the Yemeni-detainee issue, traveling to Yemen twice last year to push the U.S. counterterrorism agenda...