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...guarantee that one day our luck won’t run out once again. I’m not suggesting that the United States is in any way to blame for the motivations behind last Tuesday’s tragedy. But seeking to understand it is something that we owe to ourselves, and to our future...
...enables unmarried and separated partners to officially register as co-parents of a child, which Pullara and Stefan did soon after the birth of Milo. "This gives us equal legal status, which is good in case something happens to one of us," she explains. "At the same time, we owe a lot to our network of family and friends. In our view, a family is not a closed unit anymore, but an open structure in which everyone can contribute. Milo is used to his two homes, and I don't think this bothers him. Stefan and I may not have...
...vicious acts of barbarism, we must not let our high standards of morality impede the path to justice, deterrence and closure. If distant governments continue to harbor and indirectly support these terrorists, then we must resort to swift and extreme military actions in order to ensure proper punishment. We owe this to the victims, their families and our nation as a whole...
...have never heard of Wise Young. If they did meet him, however, they'd want to shake his hand--and the remarkable thing about that would be the simple fact that so many of them could. All the people Young has helped were victims of spinal injuries, and they owe much of the mobility they have today to his landmark work...
Laws against deadbeat parents have toughened, but scofflaws still owe $11 billion a year, and anger at chronic offenders is growing. Oakley owes $25,000, despite civil citations and garnishments. The Wisconsin court's four-person majority (all male) focused on his behavior. Wrote Justice William Bablitch: "It is overwhelmingly obvious that any child he fathers will be doomed to a future of neglect, abuse or worse...