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...thing. After all, the only other baby boomer president, Bill Clinton, had it too. In the 1990s, when no one really wanted much from the federal government except favorable tax treatment for our 401(k)s, Clinton would stand before Congress and the TV cameras, he would work his jaw and narrow his eyes, and he would tell the nation with a vigorous thrust of the thumb that the nation faces a "challenge as great as any in our peacetime history". Then, rising to the challenge, he would announce a new initiative to expand family leave...
When motorcyclists wear helmets, they are less likely to die if they crash--no one disputes that. But should helmets be mandatory? The question came to the fore last week after Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, a helmet opponent, crashed his bike, breaking his jaw. Pennsylvania didn't require him to wear a helmet; 30 states have rolled back their helmet laws since the 1960s, and more may follow. Some riders argue that as long as they don't hurt others, the risk is theirs to take. Others question the efficacy of helmets. Federal standards require that they withstand...
...white house luncheon in 1954, Winston Churchill said, "To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war." Besides, failing to respond to one's mail is not polite. Before we choose war and death, perhaps we should try diplomacy. Joe E. Dunlap Clearwater, Florida...
...Faludi enrolled at Harvard in 1977, just two years after the College abolished its quota on the number of women.“It was still pretty much a male-dominated universe,” Faludi says. “Professors would make comments that would make your jaw drop now.”“Sexual harassment at that point was a fairly new issue to be dealt with on campuses, and she wrote a lot about that,” fellow Crimson editor Susan K. Brown ’81 says. “I came from...
...first like a storybook ending for a homeless child was actually the prologue to a far more complex tale. SaBreena, a tall, serious girl, had an explosive temper. A few months after her speech, she shoved a classmate's head through a school window and broke another girl's jaw on the bus, all in one week. And after she moved in with the Juarezes in the summer of 1998, she repeatedly ran away. "We did not believe that was the same girl that spoke at the church. It was like, no way," says Stuart. Nevertheless, he and Tina decided...