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...Unfortunately, the holiday is one based on pressure. We feel pressure to show our loved one how much we care; we feel pressure to devise an elaborate and (we hope) somewhat original plan to showcase the depth of our feelings. Many of us, however, are single—and we feel our own kind of pressure, pressure to pair off beforehand, or at least find a date. Outwardly, the holiday appears happy, red, and dazzling, with diamonds to apologize and cards to quantify feelings. Scratch the surface, however, and it can be depressing and excluding...
...campaign, he'll invite us for a meeting," says Nonzioli. "That would be great." But at his office in Nashville, a spokeswoman for Gore said he was currently busy with stimulus-package discussions. "They want him to put aside climate change and switch to world hunger?" she asked, somewhat incredulously. Informed that the organizers hoped he would add the issue to his list of concerns, she conceded a bit. "It's quirky, but I have to admit it's a good idea...
When he's speaking from prepared text, Geithner is less than riveting. He has an odd, somewhat robot-like way of scanning the audience when he talks: look left, look center, look right, look center, etc. Sitting in the witness chair before a congressional committee, though, he is brilliant - at least when he's not having to spend all his time apologizing for screwing up his tax returns, as he did during his confirmation hearing last month. Today, before the Senate Banking Committee, he answered the questions he could easily answer with brisk clarity and deflected the ones he couldn...
...that was endlessly frustrating to Mundy, though, was Michelle Obama's lack of participation. Mundy had interviewed the future First Lady in 2007 for the Washington Post, but by the time the author was writing her book in 2008, the wife of the then candidate had become "controversial and somewhat polarizing," Mundy says. Mrs. Obama's campaign staff "had just become much more careful about her, and made the decision not to cooperate." (See pictures of Michelle Obama's fashion looks...
...some unspoken rule we have about fertility treatments, the miracle technologies that nuzzle up against so many ethical lines. We can create embryos in a dish, pick out the best ones, hire surrogates to carry them, freeze and discard the extras, all processes that make at least some people somewhat uncomfortable but that we accept because of our understanding of the deep desire to be a parent - a need that for many ranks somewhere with food and sleep, only it lives less in the body than in the soul. Even the pro-life movement hasn't tried to outlaw fertility...