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...leadership style is similarly direct. Although he insists "the details are important," Bush freely admits that he prefers one-page memos to bound treatises, oral briefings to long meetings. When he is briefed, he doesn't just sit back and listen. He engages his advisers, testing their logic and pressing them to get to the heart of the matter. From the minute someone starts talking about an issue, Bush is itching for a recommendation. As Albert Hawkins, his state budget director, says, "If you're going on too long, he tells you so." Says Bush: "I like to hear someone...
...federal law made final last month, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, all sites requesting identifying information from children will soon have to meet strict guidelines. If the website operators intend to post or sell information from a child under 13, they will have to get written or oral parental consent, or use a new kind of digital identification technology...
Some of those ideas might help explain why the candidate and his campaign have been so reluctant to say anything about Wolf. In her most recent best seller, Promiscuities, Wolf argues, among other things, that schools should teach teenagers the techniques of "sexual gradualism"--masturbation, mutual masturbation and oral sex--because it is more realistic than abstinence and safer than intercourse. "If we teach kids about other kinds of sexual exploration that help them wait for intercourse until they are really ready, we let girls find out about their desire...and let kids have an option not to go immediately...
While teen pregnancy is down, there is evidence that kids are still having sex at a young age. In a recent survey, more than a third of ninth-graders said they have had intercourse. Anecdotes and news reports from around the country suggest that oral sex is currently in vogue among schoolkids. In a recent survey by Planned Parenthood, 10% of self-described virgins admitted having oral sex--some in their early teens. Peter Sheras, professor of adolescent development at the University of Virginia, says many teens have become desensitized. Oral sex "might mean what a French kiss meant...
Kozol was stationed in the South Pacific on the front lines, where he performed oral surgery on injured soldiers. His service included the invasions of Guadalcanal and Saipan...