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...that no one has self-reported. And Michael McConnell, a lawyer who has defended faith-healing parents in neglect cases, is worried that exemption-repeal advocates have no patience for more such experiments. Anger, he suggests, has made them "so contemptuous of the parent that they are likely to overlook solutions that would work much better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Faith Or Healing? | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

...actually had an affair and covered it up (and to have that leak from Starr's grand jury). It's another to hear it from his own mouth, to have the fig leaf of doubt removed and be forced to confront our own moral laxity in being willing to overlook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Confession Game: Assuming It's The Truth, | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

...movement was too strident and humorless, and now it's too sexy and self-centered. The ultimate goal of feminism is a world in which women can choose what to do and be. The most damage to feminism comes not from the media but from individual women who overlook the need to continue to bond and support one another in every aspect of their lives. BETH LERCH Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 20, 1998 | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

Conservatives have an easy explanation for these forgiving attitudes toward the President's private treatment of women. They say Clinton-loving feminists, as if following the how-to-catch-a-man Rules manual, have chosen to overlook the faults of a man who has been their best provider. Ideals be damned for the President who vetoed the ban on partial-birth abortions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feminism: It's All About Me! | 6/29/1998 | See Source »

...G.O.P. star tanked at 28% (and wept like a baby), upset by the moderate Johanns, who pointedly criticized Christensen for his homophobia. Could people be seeing that the Christian right is not very Christian? The golden rule doesn't include gay bashing and divisiveness; Nebraskans traditionally had to overlook each others' differences in order to raise each others' barns. And, perhaps, the hundreds of thousands of Cornhuskers who attend the church of their choice found Christensen's passion for the proposed "Religious Freedom Amendment" to the Constitution an exercise in fixing something that isn't broken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facing A Dobson's Choice | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

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