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...Like me, my eightysomething mother, a politically savvy liberal who has loved Oprah Winfrey for years, is deeply disappointed by Winfrey's support for Obama. Yes, we have to consider that there are men who will vote for anyone but a woman, and especially anyone but Hillary Clinton. But for "O" to support Obama, who's vastly less experienced than Clinton, makes Oprah's decision seem divisive, racist and against the best interests of the country as a whole. This next presidential vote cannot be about color or sex. It's got to be about qualifications. Her choice...
...human embryonic-cell research does not make you a little bit uncomfortable, you have not thought about it enough." Would I be more certain about the lack of moral questions related to this research if I suffered from Parkinson's disease, as Kinsley does? I doubt it. My mother died from the disease, and my brother battles it every day. And though I hope that stem-cell research will yield untold benefits, my excitement is muted - perhaps because I was a research chemist for more than 40 years. Only when we see giant corporations risk their own dollars to support...
...freighted with political meaning. As in the previous books, the investigation leads Inspector Chen to a brutal legacy from the past, for even the most vicious of Qiu's criminals are victims of China's bloody history. So, incidentally, are many of the people close to the author. "My mother had a nervous breakdown at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution and she never really recovered," Qiu says. "But I also have friends who suffered even worse things. I'm not saying they're dead or anything. But they're really ruined. Their life, dreams, career - gone...
...Born in 1919 to Eurasian parents - his father was a wealthy Muslim-English lawyer, his mother German-Scottish-Sinhalese - Bawa was, yes, raised with that proverbial silver spoon. Cambridge-educated, he enjoyed an aimless youth of profligate spending, sumptuous taste and spiffy automobiles. The title page of Geoffrey Bawa, a seminal Singaporean monograph published to coincide with the London exhibition, is a money shot of Bawa's twinkling Rolls-Royce. Contemporary Donald Friend - a peripatetic, chain-smoking Australian artist and compulsive diarist - grumbled about Bawa's "grand ducal airs...
...truth in custody cases involving allegations - but little proof - of domestic violence. "It's a credibility issue, and judges often simply go with their intuition about who is telling the truth," McMullen told TIME. "These are very sad cases. People usually want to say well, for example, the mother is lying and the father is an innocent victim. But that is not usually the case. Even if there was no abuse, the mother often truly believes there...