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Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan was confirmed as the nation’s first female Solicitor General yesterday after the United States Senate voted 61-31 in favor of her nomination. Kagan’s nomination as Solicitor General, the federal government’s representative before the Supreme Court, was initially met with enthusiasm by Senators on both sides of the political aisle, but yesterday’s vote brought unexpected Republican opposition. Much of Kagan’s bi-partisan support evaporated in recent months after a spat with Sen. Arlen Specter over her unwillingness to answer...
...arguments miss the point. We now have a pretty good sense of which sex-education approaches work. Substantial research--including a 2007 Bush Administration report--has concluded that comprehensive programs are most effective at changing teen sexual behaviors. They are also largely uncontroversial outside Washington. Vast majorities of parents favor teaching comprehensive sex education...
...pleasure," wrote López Trujillo. " 'Safe sex' campaigns have led not to an increase in prudence, but to an increase in sexual promiscuity and condom use. Human behavior is an important factor in the transmission of AIDS. Without adequate education aimed at abandoning certain risky sexual behavior in favor of well-balanced sexuality, as in premarital abstinence and marital fidelity, one risks perpetuating the pandemic's disastrous results...
...Instead, the Pope chose to favor the letter of his philosophy over a smooth p.r. ride. Again. As with the recent controversy when he lifted the excommunication of four ultra-traditionalist bishops, including a Holocaust denier, Benedict plowed ahead with what he believed was the right thing to do, even if it brought a maelstrom of bad press. In this case, Benedict believes that condom use is part of a culture of promiscuity that is breaking down the traditional family, which in turn feeds the kind of behavior that spreads the HIV virus. (See pictures of the global fight against...
...their community as well as a parallel intra-Sunni battle. Elections are now playing a role in this political drama. January's provincial polls, for example, dealt a devastating blow to religious and federalist-minded parties like the Shi'ite Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council. They were firmly repudiated in favor of secular, nationalist groups. But will this resurgent nationalism carry through to the more important parliamentary elections slated for December? And if so, what will a reordered Iraqi political scene mean for future U.S. ties to Iraq? Will sharpened intrasectarian battles be fought at the ballot...