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...heaping on Alaska governor Sarah Palin (at roughly the same time that the campaign sent out e-mail blasts featuring enthusiastic media blurbs of Palin's convention speech). After the convention, the indignation only intensified; in the course of 24 hours, McCain accused Obama of supporting "sex education" for kindergarten students and referring to Palin as a pig wearing lipstick. "The McCain campaign baited the outrage hook, and the Obama campaign and the national media bit," says Todd Harris, a Republican political consultant who worked for McCain in 2000 and Fred Thompson in 2008. "Hats off to the McCain guys...
...Ireland shrewdly observes, the way a girl sees herself is more powerful than what she sees in magazines. But here's the rub: what she sees in the media does affect that self-image, especially in terms of her body. Some experts recommend media-literacy classes--as early as kindergarten. "Children need to learn how to dissect and understand this pervasive aspect of their environment," says Gigi Durham, author of The Lolita Effect, "just as they learn to understand the seasons or Newton's laws of motion...
...contrast, the new method holds the promise of going directly from one mature cell type to another. It's like a scientist becoming a lawyer without having to go back to kindergarten and grow up again, Melton says...
...They kill there. We won't return," said Kalistina Gelashvili, 82, of Kurta. "I stayed to defend our house. They destroyed everything.They burned our house and killed and stole our cattle." She was speaking at Kindergarten No. 2 in Gori, where the Ministry of Emergency Services had deposited her and a group of around 40 elderly. Other villagers were more optimistic. "I'll return if there is peace," said Izoldya Menadiyashvili, 70. "I want to return...
...have sex with if they were a chick. (Together: "John Stamos!") Their parents are still flummoxed by the boys' now-cheerful immaturity - Robert and Nancy's sighs are an extended joke on the smiling exasperation of liberal parenting - but the Brennan-Dale thing is clearly a match made in kindergarten. The misfits...