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Maybe. But some nonbelievers are beginning to think they might need something for their children. "When you have kids," says Julie Willey, a design engineer, "you start to notice that your co-workers or friends have church groups to help teach their kids values and to be able to lean on." So every week, Willey, who was raised Buddhist and says she has never believed in God, and her husband pack their four kids into their blue minivan and head to the Humanist Community Center in Palo Alto, Calif., for atheist Sunday school...
...clobber alone demands a double take. In blue sports coat and strides, white slip-ons sans socks, and with a splash of bling around his tanned neck, he looks less like Australia's third longest-serving Prime Minister than a 1970s bookie. Then again, with his lean frame and flowing mane, Bob Hawke also looks terrific for a bloke who'll turn 78 a fortnight after the Nov. 24 election. Rich nowadays and in want of nothing material, what he'd like most for his birthday is a change of government. On this warm weekday afternoon, at a mall...
...political platforms. The Web site also posts news and opinion pieces from a variety of outside sources, after VoteGopher’s editors have screened the articles. One of the Web site’s content editors, Elizabeth L. Altmaier ’10, said that when opinion pieces lean toward one side, the author’s reasoning should be “fair and thoroughly explained.” This policy comes from VoteGopher’s mission to be an “information hub” where voters can find balanced information, Ruben said. Bloggers from...
...ironic preppy androgyny were absolutely groundbreaking. Of his highly influential and landmark “Noble Savage” collection , he told The New York Times on August 3, 1993 that it was for a man “daydreaming about cashing in his Gucci loafers for a lean-to on Easter Island...
...Deval L. Patrick ’78 told his fellow leader to “lean forward,” as Harvard had done with stem cell research, he said. Unfortunately, he called his alma mater’s newest chief, “President Gilpin...