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...social science and scholarly glee at the semiotics of girls kneeling beneath raised swords to affirm their purity. The events have been called odd, creepy, oppressive of a girl's "sexual self-agency," as one USA Today columnist put it. Father-daughter bonding is great, the critics agree--but wouldn't a cooking class or a soccer game be emotionally healthier than a ceremony freighted with rings and roses and vows? Some academic skeptics make a practical objection: The majority of kids who make a virginity pledge, they argue, will still have sex before marriage but are less likely than...
Until recently, France's iconic museum wouldn't have dreamed of rolling out the red carpet for international partygoers, however rich, let alone - quelle horreur! - allowing food and drink to be served in a gallery containing valuable artworks. Indeed, Cason Thrash's party was the first time that rule was broken. Fund raisers may be standard practice at American museums, but no American museum has a history as storied as that of the Louvre. It started life in the 12th century as an imposing fortress, then became a royal palace that was home for centuries to kings and their burgeoning...
...Polling suggests that Obama still has a way to go in that regard. In the latest Washington Post/ABC News survey, only 48% of registered voters said Obama would make a good Commander in Chief, with an equal percentage saying he wouldn't. By comparison, 72% said John McCain would be a good...
...Second, the Senator should ask the journalists to recommend some interesting and influential Iraqis with whom he should meet - community leaders, NGO activists, even the odd independent-minded politician. Journalists meet such people all the time, and I'm pretty sure they wouldn't mind sharing their contacts with Obama...
...them as "innocent victims." The older of the two, Mark, today in court described how his "world was crushed" on hearing his father was missing and presumed dead in 2002: "[My mother] flung her arms around me, she said 'He's gone I think. I have lost him.' She wouldn't stop crying for ages," he said. "She wandered around the house in a daze like the rest of us." Robertson commented: "Anne Darwin clearly thought nothing of lying to her sons in this way and convincing them that their own father was lost at sea and dead in order...