Word: motherism
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...only interest in the 2008 candidates pertains to their positions on the Iraq war, accessible health care, the environment and whether they will work to transfer political power from the wallet to the ballot. Considering whether a wife is a divorcé, CEO or stay-at-home mother is more of the pageantry of personality that characterized both the 2000 and '04 elections. The past seven years are a reminder of the consequences of thinking more about the candidates' families than what their platforms mean for our families. Jacqueline Carrick Haddonfield, New Jersey...
...most disturbing cases were the ones in which money played no role, in which the impersonator craved nothing so much as our compassion. Sugeil Mejia, a young mother of two, told police two days after the attacks that her husband was a Port Authority police officer - and he was trapped in the pile. He had just called on his cell phone, she said. A police officer raced her down to Ground Zero, and rescue workers put their lives at risk searching for the man in the unstable rubble. Then Mejia vanished. Four months later, she pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment...
...certainly can't blame Ryan Boatright and his family for wanting to secure a spot at usc. "So many people are getting loans and are in great debt just to pay for college," says Boatright's mother Tanesha, 32. "To get a free ride, as a single mother with four kids, that's all you can ask for." That's surely sensible. But in a saner world, kids like Ryan wouldn't be tempted to jump so young. Let his game mature--at 14, he needs muscle, and rotation on his jump shot. Let his mind mature--maybe...
...largely eschew). Plus, the problem with a bunch of French bands is that they perform in English. It’s not that the preposterously bilingual French can’t understand the lyrics; it’s more that adopting English constitutes a sort of insult against the mother tongue.And of course, most of our own prejudices against shitty American pop songs are elitist and unfounded. The French understand hooks and love songs that only 12-year-old girls can admit to liking in America, which made Paris completely liberating. I sang “Gangsta?...
...significant increase in the weight of a mother before pregnancy may affect the gender of the child, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden...