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...that is forbidden is snobbery. Lee, who was forced to cook for her four younger siblings at the age of 9 because their mother was seriously ill, has since used trial and error to make quick fixes taste better. She'll add cream cheese, sugar and flour to store-bought slice-and-bake cookies to make them tastier--while making life easier so that "even Mom, when she doesn't have time because she's working her little tushy off, can roll it out with the kids and enjoy the fun part." At a time when we are judged more...
...then came January and the ill winds. Bush's fired Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill greeted the President in the New Year with revelations in a tell-all book that made Bush out to be at best incurious and at worst deceitful, bent on war with Iraq from the very first days in office. The manned mission to Mars was rolled out with a flourish and then muted when the polls showed people thought it was a ridiculous waste of money. Bush's State of the Union address seemed, even to sympathetic Republicans, to have been mailed in, with...
...which enacted a law in 1996--supporters called it the Defense of Marriage Act--defining marriage as "only a legal union between one man and one woman." Zach will not be able to take advantage of the Family and Medical Leave Act to care for Brad when he is ill, nor will he be eligible for the surviving-spouse benefit offered by the Social Security Administration if Brad dies. In fact, Zach and Brad will not enjoy any of the 1,049 benefits and protections afforded to married couples by federal statutes...
...sure, they need better schools and reliable medical insurance, but they also need to know better than to use their precious tax-refund checks to get tattoos. Sometimes they clip coupons and turn up faithfully at job training. Sometimes they get drunk and disorderly. They go in for ill-advised sex and foolish spending sprees. In other words, the working poor are not so different from Paris Hilton, except that they have less money...
...finger on just the thing that is turning off American voters. You can't believe anything a politician says, especially those running for higher office. Any one of them will say whatever is necessary to get elected. Dole merely gave credence to that idea. Adam H. Dorsch Arlington Heights, Ill...