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...professor who represented Al Gore in the 2000 post-election saga, will serve as a consultant on constitutional and Supreme Court matters for the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, the firm announced yesterday. Tribe will be working with colleague Thomas C. Goldstein, an HLS lecturer and a partner at Akin Gump, one of the world’s largest legal firms. “Representing private clients in important disputes of the day allows me to put into practice the principles that are the focus of my teaching and writing,” Tribe said, according...
...number of social conservatives, myself included, have recently been asked to respond to the news that Mary Cheney, the Vice President's daughter, is pregnant with a child she intends to raise with her lesbian partner. Implicit in this issue is an effort to get us to criticize the Bush Administration or the Cheney family. But the concern here has nothing to do with politics. It is about what kind of family environment is best for the health and development of children, and, by extension, the nation at large...
With all due respect to Cheney and her partner, Heather Poe, the majority of more than 30 years of social-science evidence indicates that children do best on every measure of well-being when raised by their married mother and father. That is not to say Cheney and Poe will not love their child. But love alone is not enough to guarantee healthy growth and development. The two most loving women in the world cannot provide a daddy for a little boy--any more than the two most loving men can be complete role models for a little girl...
...applying to medical school to study spirituality and religion in Cambodia by joining a shadow puppet troupe. Tao said she intends to live and perform with these master artists to study the spiritual influences on the art form, an ancient form of storytelling in Cambodia. She also hopes to partner with NGOs that are currently using shadow puppetry as a medium to spread awareness about public health. Seven seniors out of 100 applicants received the fellowships this year. Last year, 86 people applied for five awards...
...Conley.Although the job demands a high level of physical fitness, Ann Georgi says it is a cerebral occupation as well.“Figuring out horses, training them, competing, is tremendously intellectually challenging,” she says. “You are constantly trying to communicate with a partner who’s got his own agenda.”But despite the demands of the job, Cloos says she is hoping to “shoe” until she retires.“I am not thinking about doing anything else,” she says...