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...Cao’s crowning moments came that same year, when she played for the third time at the junior Australian Open at Melborune Park and raised her ranking to No. 699 in the world. “That was really awesome because I played for three years straight at Melbourne Park,” Cao said. “We were playing the second week and we would have meals where all the professionals ate, and we saw them on a daily basis. Crowds were cheering us, it was really cool.”At Harvard, Cao has continued...
...individual states - to recognize gay couples as married. Even talk of federally recognized civil unions is meaningless until DOMA is repealed, since the act also prohibits the appearance of marriage, no matter what the relationship is called. It's why gays can't enjoy the tax benefits that straight couples do, for instance, and why spouses of gay federal employees cannot be covered by government health plans. (See a radical solution to the gay-marriage controversy...
...decade. Furthermore, Gingrich's description of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff seems to imply it was part of F.D.R.'s New Deal. Smoot and Hawley were Republicans, and the act that bears their names was passed in 1930, during the Hoover Administration. If Gingrich can't get his facts straight about the last century, why should we listen to his suggestions for this one? Lee Poole, PHOENIX...
BILL O'REILLY: Cable-news ratings leader for 100 straight months. That's a lot of doin' it live...
...soft-spoken University of Michigan sociology professor and survey expert, Groves, 60, has stepped straight into the firing line in the decennial battle over the national Census - the tally used to distribute congressional seats and tax dollars. The most contentious issue: whether to rely on mathematical sampling in addition to old-fashioned, one-at-a-time counting to measure the country's population. Many experts say sampling yields more accurate results than an individual count, especially among those hardest to reach, such as the homeless and the poor. As a rule, though, Republicans grow queasy at seeing the words Census...