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...panel of high-profile African-American academics along with a reverend, a film director and the founder of an educational media company discussed the disenfranchisement of black Americans and other political issues parodied in the graphic novel, Birth of a Nation: A Comic Nation, last night at the Institute of Politics...
MILESTONES: PFC Lynndie England gives birth; Pierre Salinger dies...
...roots of belief in God were being conducted long before Hamer's efforts--often with intriguing results. In 1979, investigators at the University of Minnesota began their now famous twins study, tracking down 53 pairs of identical twins and 31 pairs of fraternal twins that had been separated at birth and raised apart. The scientists were looking for traits the members of each pair had in common, guessing that the characteristics shared more frequently by identical twins than by fraternal twins would be genetically based, since identical twins carry matching DNA, and those traits for which there was no disparity...
...Ariz., Bush is fighting to reclaim the wedge. He called Kerry "a liberal Senator from Massachusetts" and conjured liberalism incarnate, senior Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy, three times. Bush brought up his own support for the anti--gay-marriage amendment and used the word marriage 11 times. He called "partial-birth" abortion "a brutal practice." For his part, Kerry turned in the most overtly religious presidential-debate performance--for either a Democrat or Republican--in memory. Although only a few months ago he was reluctant to discuss his faith--it's "personal" and "private," Kerry told TIME in March--he invoked...
...Saturday, Bush himself devoted part of his radio address to wedge issues, smacking Kerry for voting against bills proscribing partial-birth abortion and against the Defense of Marriage Act, which banned federal recognition of same-sex marriages but otherwise left the matter to the states. Kerry says he voted against the abortion bills because they didn't contain sufficient protections for a mother's health. He now agrees with the marriage act's provisions, but he has said he voted against it because he didn't want to support "gay bashing...