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JOHN MC CAIN OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY "Your character is what you are to yourself, not what you pretend to be to yourself or others. We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves from ourselves...I am confident you will find honor in your choices when the hard choices arrive at your door. You need not go to war to find them...
...determine whether stacking the statistical deck in this manner had skewed the results. When they looked at a broader population of women, the breast-cancer risk, even if a gene mutation was present, fell to 56%. National Institutes of Health geneticist Jeffrey Streuwig, who led one study, does not pretend this new number is the last word, but neither does he think the older, grimmer figure is a better one. "There is a lot of uncertainty," he says...
Today, as she holds court at the Milky Way, her kosher dairy restaurant that serves jalapeno potato pancakes and encourages mingling ("someone called this the Jewish Cheers"), Leah doesn't even pretend to be the shaper of her famous son's blooming genius. Looking back on his youth, she says, "He scared me! I didn't know anything about raising children--couldn't change a diaper--and it took a concerted effort just to get him past his infancy. Now he has dimensions I can't even fathom. Most people dream. Steven dreams; then he fulfills...
Hepps's approach has resulted and will continue to result in Jewish children rebelling against and ultimately rejecting Judaism. Modern Jews must reject the doctrine of separatism Hepps advocates. Extremists notwithstanding, anti-Semitism is no longer a powerful force in the lives of American Jews. To continue to pretend that we must protect ourselves from destruction and encourage a rejection of outsiders is to invite condemnation from without and rebellion from within...
...from three main issues: the role of beauty, the importance of a career and the reason for raising children. Ironically, I had been making many decision in my life based on feminine stereotypes--I would do the opposite of what the stereotypes stated that I should do. I would pretend I hated children. I would never even sew a button on a skirt. I would wear slippers and my pajamas (or jeans) to class all the time...