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...challenging targets I could think of: my mom (who I predicted wouldn't know how to accept it), my ex-girlfriend (who I predicted wouldn't want it) and - since Sanguinetti mentioned that people have used the service to reach out to celebrities - country-music star Taylor Swift (because, well, one can only hope...
There are few children more vulnerable than the youth of Haiti. So when the western hemisphere's poorest country was ravaged by the Jan. 12 earthquake, people in the developed world turned their Brad-and-Angelina eyes to the tens of thousands left orphaned in the rubble. Well-meaning interest in adopting Haitian kids has spiked worldwide, prompting the Haitian government to apply the brakes for fear that amid the chaos, children might be whisked away illegally. On Jan. 29, that concern seemed borne out when 10 Baptist missionaries from Idaho were arrested trying to ferry 33 children...
...diamond-studded tennis bracelet? No: inner peace and the means to cope with the impermanence of all things, including herself. This kind of crisis--regarded as a luxurious problem by many--is not an uncommon malaise in the well-heeled, 40-something mom set. Not coincidentally, they tend to purchase a lot of books...
Moderate Republicans sometimes blame conservatives for edging them out of public life. But politics is a competitive business. If the conservatives bring more voters, more dollars and more intensity to the table, well, of course they get the bigger chair. They've earned it. The fault is with the moderates themselves. The moderate tendency still exists in the GOP. It expresses itself in quiet dealmaking in the halls of the Senate, in pragmatic decision-making in state capitals. But when challenged, the moderate tendency goes mute. (See 10 GOP congressional contenders...
...people are always saying that Harvard is a little bit like Hogwarts—which would be true save for the fact that students here don't wear robes. Or so we thought. Now, with the “Currier Bathrobe Projekt,” it seems that robes (well, bathrobes to be specific) will have a much more visible presence on campus, especially up in the Quad...