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...Bill Clinton once again thinking out loud about his conclusion that the first two years of his presidency have been far from successful," says White House correspondent James Carney. "He has a compulsion to analyze his situation in public, and today the White House is once again in turmoil...
Despite working Ethiopia during a period of turmoil, Shelemay says she attempted to separate her studies from the political issues of the time. "That's a tricky business--to negotiate between scholarship and political activism," she says. "It brings up issues of ethics, politics and practicality...
...children enter the physical and emotional turmoil of adolescence, they naturally seek more independence and experiment more boldly. But it is precisely at this phase, the report shows, that parental involvement in school activities--and by extension, parents' influence on their kids' lives--drops off. Seventy-five percent of the parents of nine-year-olds claim high or medium involvement, while only 55% of the parents of 14-year-olds...
...TRIAL HAS SERVED well the need for the society, and particularly the powerful corporate and government leaders, to have the public diverted during a period of great economic turmoil, when literally millions of people are being downsized out of their jobs, often by corporations that are showing respectable profits. Anxiety is great, and while much of it is shifted by politicians to affirmative action, welfare, crime and other race-related issues, the O.J. case has served to take up thousands of hours of media time with what amounts to entertainment. The Amos 'n' Andy show served a similar purpose during...
...these Catholics so happy? Haven't they heard that the church in America is in turmoil and disarray--scolded by John Paul for laissez-faire theology, racked by internal squabbles over moral issues (artificial means of birth control, abortion, pre- and extramarital sex, divorce, gay and lesbian rights) up and down the hierarchy and tainted as well by scandal? The spate of news accounts in recent years about priests accused of sexually molesting children is only the most disturbing sign that something must be seriously wrong within the U.S. church. There is another, with potential long-range consequences: the minuscule...