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Aside from an appealing sense of rarity, multiple births carry a nostalgic whiff of the idea of a big, sprawling family at a time when the American nuclear family is largely shrinking. Shows like TLC's Duggar's Big Family Album, on which an Arkansas couple flaunts their 17 (!) children, or the same network's Jon & Kate Plus 8 (more like Jon & Kate Plus 8 Plus The People They're Reportedly Having Affairs With) sell the idea of multiples as special. In the case of Jon and Kate Gosselin, who gave birth to a set of twins...
Would a more powerful Maliki be good for the U.S.? The withdrawal deal served the interests of Barack Obama last year; both he and Maliki wanted a firm timetable, whereas President Bush opposed the idea. Officials close to Maliki say he was impressed with Obama when they met last summer. But the Prime Minister is no fan of the new U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. Two years ago she expressed concerns about Maliki's sectarian sensibilities and called on the Iraqi parliament to replace him with a "less divisive and more unifying figure." Furious, Maliki said that Democrats such...
...course, many may contest the idea of enriching a non-democratic, repressive, and relatively unfriendly government. However, considering some of the other countries from which the US purchases oil—a radically unfriendly and Soviet-esque Chavez regime in Venezuela and the notoriously absolutist monarchy in Saudi Arabia—any strategic or moral reservations about buying Iranian oil are moot points. In reality, the hardliners who oppose both developing trade with Iran and developing alternative energy sources are doing more damage to American security than re-opening our embassy in Tehran ever will...
...Gist: Bernie Madoff and Co. have, for the moment, dislodged attorneys from the doghouse of public opinion. But a world without tort claims and padded billing would still be many people's idea of heaven. Howard, an attorney and author of the best-selling book The Death of Common Sense, chronicles a society in which rules have run amok and litigation looms as a constant threat. Among his egregious examples: a Florida teacher wary of restraining a hysterical child gets the cops to slap handcuffs on the kid instead; a New York City high school prohibits nurses from calling ambulances...
...idea that Lynn is "uniquely qualified" - the White House's language - for the post is simply bogus. The phrase doesn't mean merely good or talented; it means that Lynn, of all the possible candidates for the position, is the only person who could fill...