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With all due respect to Cheney and her partner, Heather Poe, the majority of more than 30 years of social-science evidence indicates that children do best on every measure of well-being when raised by their married mother and father. That is not to say Cheney and Poe will not love their child. But love alone is not enough to guarantee healthy growth and development. The two most loving women in the world cannot provide a daddy for a little boy--any more than the two most loving men can be complete role models for a little girl...
...little from what John Kerry said in 2004. ("How can it be that we Americans spend more money than any nation on earth [on health care] and yet we still have 46 million uninsured?") But his emphasis is on weaving in his own personal story - the son of Kenyan father and mother from Kansas who rose to be a U.S. Senator - and other stories of people who overcame long odds. He noted how "a group of 13 ragtag colonies" achieved independence; how "rabble-rousers" throughout American history had worked to ensure equality for women and minorities; and" how "at each...
...Father Richard John Neuhaus is a Catholic priest and founder of the journal First Things...
INAUGURATED. Joseph Kabila, 35, as the Democratic Republic of Congo's first freely elected President in more than 40 years; in the capital, Kinshasa. Kabila-who has served as the country's leader since the assassination of his father, President Laurent Kabila, in 2001-defeated Jean-Pierre Bemba in an electoral runoff in October. Addressing dignitaries alongside the Congo River, Kabila vowed to end the corruption and violence that have ravaged the mineral-rich country: "I can see the Congo of tomorrow carrying the hopes of a renascent Africa," he said...
...central piece that depicts a disturbing relationship between a high school girl and an older man on a cross-country journey, Jason M. Lazarcheck ’08 skillfully depicts his character with an affability that makes him all the more chilling, acting like a benevolent father-figure while delivering lines that increasingly suggest his character is anything...