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Worn diagonally over one shoulder a la a messenger bag, the slings looked cool and promised what every new mother covets: a blissful baby, parent-child bonding and a free pair of hands for mom. Yet try as I might, I couldn't relax as I watched my newborn disappear into the voluminous folds of fabric. Was he so scrunched up it was hurting his neck? Could he breathe okay in there? I was also simultaneously worried he was about to slide out, so I always kept a hand on him. And if I had to do that, what...
...such as "brainwashing," "conservative," and "partisan" color the controversy as each side derides the other for skewing history for political gain. The question of whether the Board’s actions are justified has been opined upon to no end. But such haranguing distracts from a larger issue at hand; the controversy should force Americans to reevaluate their entire sense of history and cast a more critical eye on the interpretation of our past...
...epithet resonated - the protesters who screamed those same words at U.S. troops in the 1960s sent the American pendulum swinging back toward conservatism and crippled the Democratic Party for several generations. The Tea Party nativism, paranoia and anti-intellectualism embraced by the Republicans have rarely been a winning hand in American politics. (See pictures of the Tea Party movement...
Perhaps unsurprisingly, this very modern novel has a fraught relationship with its ancient source material. On the one hand, the text of the story is rife with biblical allusions. Some are direct citations made by characters, some inform the book’s conversations in paraphrase, and still others are simply biblical phrases woven directly into the fabric of Steinberg’s narrative. The somewhat stilted wording of the Bible in English translation assimilates easily into Steinberg’s high register prose style, and in this manner, the milieu of the story pervades the storytelling...
...With the health care victory in hand, Europeans will now want Obama to get back to issues more relevant to the continent, Schmitz wrote in Der Spiegel. While American politicians have battled over health care, "every other issue has become a sideshow," he says. "The Afghanistan mission: of marginal interest. Protecting the environment: postponed. Peace in the Middle East: off in the distance. Sanctions against Iran: delayed. Europe: not even worth a trip." Ouch...