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...table. Betsy cooks up a storm straight out of the Gourmet Cookbook, and-though she might still chill them-there are vintage French burgundies to add some thunder. A frequent visitor over the years is Brother-in-Law Hurd, a New Mexico painter of Western landscapes, who years ago taught Wyeth how to paint with tempera. Together, though, they are more apt to top each other's tall tales than talk...
...there's anything TV has taught us, after all, it's that nothing is as ordinary as weird families, or as weird as ordinary ones. TV is all about families, real and ersatz, on islands and gridirons, in pitch meetings and interrogations. After a long hiatus, it's good to have the family back...
Alexander highlighted Obama’s similar ability to wrangle with words, saying that his book “Dreams of My Father,” which she has taught in a class at Yale, was a “real” book and extraordinary American narrative...
...faith-based organizations in delivering social services and made clear his intention to expand George W. Bush's federal faith-based initiative. In discussing teen pregnancy, he says there are steps government can take to reduce the rates of unintended pregnancies, but he adds that children need to be taught that "sexuality is sacred." In the face of concentrated economic and social breakdowns, Obama argues, there is no reason policymakers should be limited to ideological solutions...
...people of the state of the right to honest service." Such statutes have become broader, allowing lawyers greater reach in how to interpret such talk. "It used to be quid pro quo. That's what people were looking for. Not so anymore." Smith, a former prosecutor who has taught federal criminal law for 15 years, explains: "The question is whether something was promised or something was expected. The courts realize there is a right to give, a constitutional right to support your candidate with money. But now we're into the gray area. When is there an expectation...