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...nothing about family breakdown is ever simple. In Sue's case, it's her own daughter who's shutting her out, in retaliation for all manner of mistakes and indiscretions that Sue insists she never committed. At one point she spent, she says, $A5,000 on legal fees trying to win the right to visit the kids - if only to make sure they're okay - but ran out of money and couldn't pursue the claim. The children's father is also excluded. "The problem is that the custodial parent can brainwash the children," says Sue, "tell them things that...
...Forum is a chance for politicians or experts to express their opinions and then have their viewpoints questioned in a hard but polite manner. At the same time, the IOP needs to ensure that speakers are challenged during the question session—which some claim Feith was not—and it should tweak the question-and-answer format in order to achieve this goal...
...life, warriors are judged by their prowess on the battlefield; in death, by the manner of their dying. When Russian special forces cornered Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov in a basement in the village of Tolstoy Yurt, Chechnya, last week, they offered him the chance to surrender. When he refused, the Russians say, they blasted the concrete bunker in which he was hiding, killing him in the process. That final gesture of defiance has transformed Maskhadov's reputation. For years, many former comrades disdained him as a weak political leader who, after a victorious war of secession against Russia...
...When bloggers get credentials in this manner, like they did at the [Republican and Democratic national] conventions this summer, their credibility grows,” he added. “The growth of people participating in the public conversation that blogging represents is a great thing for democracy and a great thing for global cultural growth...
Liberals be warned: Frist has developed the reputation of being a “good Republican,” a bipartisan moderate with a nice bedside manner. Although Frist’s time as a Senator hasn’t been marked with the ridiculous remarks the public has come to expect from such GOP greats as Rick Santorum or Trent Lott, one would be hard-pressed to find differences in their voting records on major issues. Frist is no John McCain. Further, any trace of moderation that Frist previously exhibited will be crowded out by his need to curry...