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...Republican meaning of family values tends to point toward a cultural ideal (two-parent heterosexual households, hard work, no pornography, a minimal tolerance of the aberrant). Says David Blankenhorn, president of the Institute for American Values: "Republicans really do want to argue about the culture. They want to argue about morality, what's right and wrong, standards of private behavior. They really do want to argue about sexuality, procreation and marriage...
...limited amount of problem space in their heads . . . If you're at a rally and you're worried about losing your job, you don't care to hear about family values." But the historian Christopher Lasch remarks, "To see the modern world from the point of view of a parent is to see it in the worst possible light." The deeper energy in the values argument arises from that parent's perspective upon the future. It makes them angry. It makes them unpredictable voters...
...Olympic Achievement." This allows you to pose for a picture (taken by the official camera loaded with the official film) next to Hodori, who, you will recall, is the former official Olympic mascot from Seoul. Two out of four means you are either a rhythmic gymnast or the parent of one. My condolences. Just so everyone can get an answer right, the name of the gold-medal-winning horse from Down Under is Kibah Tic Toc. Really...
...said he made the decision on his own as a response to the growing wave of protest against the album's distributor, Warner Bros. Records, and its parent company, Time Warner. The rapper claims that Warner Bros. Records staff members had received death threats. Police groups had called for a boycott not only of the album but of all Time Warner products. Some record stores had already pulled Body Count off their shelves...
...presidential parent, after all, is a springboard to media attention. The Reagan kids used it to their advantage: Ron Jr. gleaned a Hollywood career, albeit short-lived, and his sibling Patti Davis sold a mountain of books. But media coverage isn't always profitable, and is often uncomfortably probing. Reporters followed Amy Carter's exploits even after her father lost his reelection. Paparazzis flooded Caroline Kennedy's wedding. And the watchful, shallow eye of the media spared none of them from harsh scrutiny...