Word: older
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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George Bush is a compassionate conservative. He sees the needs other, older conservatives did not always see, or did not always think they must or could address. But he applies conservative solutions to these needs: more freedom, more choice, the inclusion in the public sphere of faith-based approaches. All the money in the world, he knows, cannot and will not turn around a troubled child's heart. But God can, and his workers are eager. Bush does not fear faith as an opposing power center to the state. He likes it as an opposing power center to the state...
...appeal? Well, he's not Bush or Gore. In a race short on enthusiasm for two Ivy League centrists, the Ivy League radical (Princeton, Harvard Law) has panache. Plus there's nothing poll-tested about him. He doesn't do focus groups. At 66, he's a generation older than boomers Bush and Gore, but he's tapped into youthful idealism. A bit of a recluse, he doesn't own a car and is known for his old clothes, even though his speaking fees and investments have left him with personal assets of close to $4 million...
...With older children, the task becomes trying to maintain some semblance of normal mother-child relations. In Plymouth, Mich., the Children's Visitation Program runs parenting-skills classes at the women's prison to help moms and their kids reconnect. "A lot of [the children] are very angry," says director Florida Andrews. "They've been stigmatized because their mothers are locked up." Girl Scouts Beyond Bars buses kids to prisons once a month, where the scouts hold troop meetings with their incarcerated mothers. Tanyall Law, 15, and her two sisters, members of the Girl Scouts Rolling Hills council...
...Canadian national team has taken a different approach to developing its talent for the Olympics. While the U.S. Select Team is the only place for older American hockey players to compete, there is a senior women's hockey league in Canada...
...years at home looking at Windows instead of sitting in a lively classroom looking out windows seemed about as much fun as screening prospective dates over the Web versus scoping them out in person. I could see the convenience factor for students balancing graduate study with jobs and families, older students looking for enrichment or far-flung recruits in the U.S. Army, which just launched a $600 million online learning initiative. But I had more trouble with the vision of millions of doe-eyed eighteen year-olds dialing up for degrees without leaving their desks. Sure, digital diplomas are often...