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...aside the scientific findings for a minute. Isn't there something in our hearts that tells us, intuitively, that children need a mother and a father? Admittedly, that ideal is not always possible. Divorce, death, abandonment and unwed pregnancy have resulted in an ever growing number of single-parent families in this culture. We admire the millions of men and women who have risen to the challenge of parenting alone and are meeting their difficult responsibilities with courage and determination. Still, most of them, if asked, would say that raising children is a two-person job best accomplished...
Giuliani’s keen ability to meld a changing cultural landscape with conservative philosophy makes him the ideal Republican candidate for 2008. Senator John McCain wasn’t the only Republican to open an exploratory committee on Nov. 16: Rudy Giuliani was right behind him. For the sake of the Party’s future, the GOP should hope that Giuliani moves in front of McCain in the months to come...
There's precious little light in Iceland during the winter, which makes the upper latitudes ideal for viewing the northern lights--especially on New Year's Eve. In Reykjavík, Icelanders gather around dozens of massive bonfires to sing traditional folk songs accompanied, according to local legend, by trolls, fairies and elves. (Iceland's Tourist Board claims that 80% of Icelanders believe in little beings.) At midnight the city explodes in a massive fireworks display. The dancing and partying that follow last until the sun comes up, which in Iceland is at about lunchtime...
...Ideal Idealists Re Walter Isaacson's "The Return of the Realists" [Nov. 20]: I am sure the neoconservatives would like the American people to believe that they led us into Iraq because they are altruistic and idealistic lovers of democracy, and not because they were trying to secure Iraq's considerable oil supplies for our continuing fossil-fuel gluttony. They appear to have persuaded Isaacson, however, because his column did not even mention the subject of Iraq's oil. Nevertheless, they will have a harder time convincing many other Americans. Cary Dictor San Leandro, California...
...Ideal Date: We’d road trip to a Built to Spill concert and then talk about music over cheeseburgers and root beer afterwards...