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...There's a lot I want to know. I want to know, now that he's been found not guilty, if he feels that the prosecution was a malicious one. I want to know if he feels that hip-hop is receiving unfair legal scrutiny (Eminem and DMX are also facing jail time in unrelated cases). I want to know if he thinks that the whole nasty club shooting incident and subsequent trial busted up his relationship with one of the hottest women in the world. But he dodges questions about specifics, promising to get into details at another time...
...least unchosen and unchangeable, might see no need to investigate further. But actions always entail choices, and those opposed to these choices can easily proclaim a doctrine of "hate the sin, love the sinner." Those suffering from kleptomania also have strong desires for immoral acts; their situation is monstrously unfair, but that doesn't make theft morally acceptable. Using biology as an excuse promotes an image of homosexuals as sick, diseased unfortunates, as lepers to be ministered unto and "cured" through therapy and divine grace. Many gays find these portrayals highly insulting, but they will not go away so long...
While the Crimson squad protested the unfair goal, Jelenic--the same player who had an altercation with a group of rowdy Harvard students through the glass on Friday night--skated off the bench and circled Jonas with a few words for the star netminder...
Surprisingly, just as some U.S. schools are dumping the SAT because they consider it unfair, the British have discovered its potential value in elevating smart kids at poor schools. A study released last week shows that kids in state-run schools who did well on the SAT are falling through the cracks of the current British testing system, which rewards those who have mastered specific subjects rather than general skills. Britain's education czar said he thinks SATs could be compulsory there in a few years...
Given the passion each author musters, mothers will be relieved that Crittenden, for the moment, has the last word. Though her thesis--that parenting imposes unfair penalties on women--is as old as motherhood itself, she stitches together recent research with a brief history of wifery and turns out a fresh, persuasive argument. Inflexible workplaces, financial inequities in marriage (and divorce), and the ineligibility of unpaid caregivers for the government's major social-insurance programs make motherhood the "single biggest risk factor for poverty in old age," she writes. Her recipe for "bring[ing] children up without putting women down...