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...head of outpatient psychological services at Washington's Children's Hospital in the 1980s, Horn saw the effects of broken homes and absent fathers. The experience pushed him to the right. His wife's becoming pregnant with two girls made him, he says, more sensitive to fetuses and a foe of legal abortion. In the Administration of George Herbert Walker Bush, Horn was a mid-level appointee on family issues. Though the Bush years were marked by Dan Quayle's Murphy Brown speech about the importance of fathers to single-mom families, the government did little to promote marriage...
...season began promisingly enough with a 3-1 home win over crosstown rival MIT and a gritty 3-1 road victory over league foe Southampton. But untimely injuries and positional changes disrupted the team’s chemistry and led to a tough 3-0 road loss to league power Vassar in the next game...
...Noted "There is a common enemy out there." LORD ROBERTSON, Secretary-General of nato, on why the alliance that was established to contain Russia now accepts this former foe as a junior partner...
...senior House Democratic aide. DeLay has lately tried to tone down his bulldog image. At the party's January retreat, he staged a comedy skit, putting on a gray wig and pretending to take media lessons so he would "project a kinder, gentle face." With Pelosi as a foe, however, he had better make sure his inner bulldog is still hungry...
Vader proves a difficult foe to vanquish. That is just as well for the story because the Dark Lord is far more menacing in The Empire than he was in Star Wars, possessed of a mysterious past. There is a hint of a complex personality, and Vader, like all good villains, commands the screen whenever he appears, his black robes floating behind him like the shrouds of death. But once he has been given such prominence, he is a hard character for even his creator to control. In Star Wars, Vader was soundly defeated, and there was a rousing celebration...