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...victories in the courts. Three state supreme courts - in Massachusetts, California and, just last week, Connecticut - have ruled that gays have the fundamental right to marry. Those courts have ruled that not even civil unions with all the legal trimmings of marriage can compensate. Gay-rights activists hope that Iowa's high court, will hear arguments in December and then rule as soon as January 2009 on a lower court's decision in favor of gay marriage, will bring judicial victories in state high courts to four...
...Iowa, the supreme court hasn't even ruled yet, but already a similar voter push is underway. Conservatives are urging gay-marriage foes to not leave anything to chance: they're backing a group of judicial candidates that could utterly remake the majority on the high court...
...million--strong boomer generation, which is now heading rapidly toward retirement, and refocused them on saving. "We must have a reset on consumer spending; frankly, it is out of control," says Daniel J. Houston, president of retirement investor services at Principal Financial Group in Des Moines, Iowa. The average contribution to a 401(k) plan is 7% of salary, yet the average person may need to save 13% to 15% of his salary to maintain his standard of living in retirement. For people 10 years from retirement, "this might be the best wake-up call we ever got," says Houston...
...more pointed responses from the debaters because in the [national] debate later on, that may not happen,” said IOP Forum Committee member Christopher J. Hollyday ’11. Questions were posed by former Chairperson of the Massachusetts State Republican Party Jean Inman, former governor of Iowa Thomas J. Vilsack, and Emma M. Lind ’09, editorial chair of The Harvard Crimson. David C. King, a lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School, moderated the event. Although the debaters focused on the strengths of their respective candidates’ plans and highlighted the weaknesses...
...save the peace. Herbert Hoover was "the Great Humanitarian" who saved Belgium from starvation; under the right circumstances, he could have been a great President. But his temperament undermined his talent; he never understood that politics was more art than engineering. He later recalled that after growing up in Iowa as a Quaker orphan, he was 10 years old before he realized he could do something for the sheer joy of it without offending God. "Now that's a lesson from his early days that I think crippled him temperamentally," says Smith, "particularly as the kind of empathetic leader that...