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...heretofore unappreciated level of self-knowledge, vocabulary and scrapbooking skill. The bricolage of old photos, handwritten lyrics and musings include Love's teen aspirations-- "I have a rage for success"--and juvenile group- home reports. The rocker-widow- provocateur writes to her dead spouse about their daughter's teacher and describes an Easter-egg hunt at Liz Taylor's house. "I love being famous," Love says. "Because no one else has it. Because it's psychicly [sic] charging. Because...
Mexico's months-long political crisis took a precarious turn Saturday when President Vicente Fox sent special federal forces into the impoverished and violence-torn southern state of Oaxaca, after an American journalist and a local teacher were killed there on Friday...
...groups such as the APPO stuck to their insistence that Ruiz resign and call new elections, which could see a PRD candidate elected. Their continued defiance, according to witnesses, brought pro-Ruiz thugs into the streets on Friday and resulted in the shootouts that killed Will and a Oaxaca teacher and injured four other people...
...most cases, you simply can't measure the future cost of teaching your kids liberal values; for espousing them openly, perhaps one day they will be punished by a teacher, expelled from school, caught by police, fired from a job. Being caught between such choices - allowing your kid to be brainwashed, teaching him otherwise at possible risk - is a grotesque dilemma and perhaps at the heart of why so many hundreds of thousands of young Iranian parents emigrate each year once they are on the cusp of parenthood. They can take up the East-West divide in cities like Toronto...
...Iranian society slowly, without too much instruction by tense parents. The benefit of this is style is that you don't actively teach your kids to lie. My friend, the one with the prayer DVD, follows this approach, and the result is an honest child who recently told his teacher, "my parents don't pray." Nothing happened, but much could have. My friend thinks it isn't right to engage in reverse-inculcation at home. "Then how are we any different from them?" she asks. "He should have the right to choose himself the values he wants." I agree...