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...brought his brother down to earth and then made him larger than life. "My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life," he said, "to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop...
...complicated figure," says the Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit priest and the culture editor of the Catholic magazine America. "Catholics on the right are critical because of his stance on abortion. Catholics on the left celebrate his achievements on immigration, fighting poverty and other legislation that is a virtual mirror of the Church's social teaching." (See pictures of the Lion of the Senate...
...crucial question is whether it is wrong for parents to allow their child to indulge in her passion," the Dekkers' lawyer told Radio Netherlands. Dekker will continue to live at home, but her parents will not have the right to make decisions on her behalf for two months, at which time the case will be reviewed. Had her plans not been put on hold, Dekker, whose trip would take two years, would have been on track to shatter the world record for the youngest solo trip around the world, which was broken on Thursday by Mike Perham, 17, from...
...Perham, who was just 16 when he set sail on his nine-month expedition around the world, believes age shouldn't be a determining factor when it comes to deciding whether someone can try to follow his accomplishment. "I think it's right for the Netherlands to state their views, but in the end, it should still be Laura and her parents' choice," he tells TIME...
...Perham says he had no doubts he was ready by the time he was 16. Two years earlier, he had sailed for six weeks across the Atlantic while his father monitored him from a nearby boat. That adventure left him feeling ready to take on the world - but not right away. It took him more than a year to prepare for his record-breaking trip, during which his parents sought out several additional opinions, including those of 12 sailors who'd gone around the world (11 of them were supportive of Perham's attempt) as well as those of sports...