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...both her public and personal life, Parker has maintained high ethical standards and decorum in her years as an elected official. No scandals have occurred on her watch. As mayor she will present the city's best face to the world, one of tolerance, diversity and compassion for all our citizens." - An endorsement from the Houston Chronicle (Nov. 22, 2009) (Read a 2005 cover story, "The Battle Over Gay Teens...
Perhaps the best way to convey the horror of what happened at Fort Hood would have been not to present the nearly life-size face of a killer on your cover but to share photos of his many victims. Mary Schartau, BROOKLYN...
...suspicion of state power can trump disillusionment with free markets ... The more that Democrats flail in the present, the more likely it becomes that the Great Recession will be remembered as the time when liberalism let the future slip away." --11/29/09...
...epidemics. Help Doctors Without Borders continue its work by giving someone an e-card or a Tribute Contribution in his or her honor. The person will receive a letter of his or her honorary contribution to the cause, and you will get a tax break for the philanthropic present...
...involvement with the radical Pakistani Islamist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) began nearly three years before the Mumbai attacks. In late 2005 he was told by his handlers to travel to India to do surveillance, so he changed his name in February 2006 to David Headley "in order to present himself in India as an American who was neither Muslim nor Pakistani," according to the complaint filed in U.S. district court in Chicago. He allegedly made the first of several trips to India in September 2006, using the cover of working for an immigration agency. But according to investigators...