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Newt Gingrich confesses his serial marital sins to Focus on the Family founder James Dobson and wins absolution; Mitt Romney admits the error of his earlier tolerance of abortion rights. John Edwards seldom misses a chance to repent of his vote for the war, to highlight Hillary Clinton's refusal to do likewise. As for paying for past mistakes, Barack Obama took care of $400 worth of parking tickets left over from his law-school days--two weeks before he announced his candidacy...
This mixture of fear, disdain, and incomprehension might be a legacy of recent (until 2006) electoral defeats, but—in defiance of popular myths —Americans aren’t eager to impose religion via the ballot box. Most voters say that religion seldom or never influences their voting decisions, and voters are far more concerned about officials who pay too much attention to religion than those who pay too little (51 vs. 35 percent in a 2004 CBS/New York Times poll), as the Schiavo backlash reflects...
...Riot Grrl has taken her place with the Girl Friday as something of an anachronism, and the Modern Woman is on the rise—but who is she? Laurel T. Ulrich’s best-known quotation, a bumper-sticker staple, reads: “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” With a Women’s Week of relatively inoffensive events like a “Smoothie Night for Vision Awareness” and a “Broads in the City” mixer, are women at Harvard too well-behaved for their...
...letters, from a lawyer in Tennessee, reported a common belief among the African-American community that tumors should be left alone lest surgery “provoke” them. The correspondence sparked Retsky’s interest in a racial angle to his theory. “Myths seldom lack any connection with reality,” his new paper reads. “Could it be that [African-Americans] believe in the myth twice as frequently as [European-Americans] because they observe it twice as often?” Retsky’s research is again raising eyebrows...
...college were around $7,000, inflation-adjusted to today’s dollars. Four-fifths of American households had annual incomes in excess of that. Beyond assistance with the direct cost of college, very few students counted on parents for help with housing or income. Student loans were small, seldom more than $2,000 total, and most of those who borrowed paid off their loans quickly...