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...Motherhood also prompted a shift in her priorities. "It changes the way you work. I used to just go into a studio and just stay there until the album was done. I could be completely selfish and immerse myself," she says. "[Being a mother] made me stronger as a person. To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend...
...Philadelphia - where Gore has been told that a huge Democratic margin is vital to taking the state as a whole - Gore actually reminded a black congregation that way back when, "strict constructionist" meant Dred Scott and three-fifths of a person, and that of course he much preferred Thurgood Marshall to Clarence Thomas. And that was after he reminded them that everyone has to choose between "good and evil...
...Bush blasted the disclosure as "dirty politics, last-minute politics," and he attributed it to Democratic maneuvering. "I don't know if my opponent's campaign was involved," he told Fox News the day after the story broke. "But I do know that the person who admitted doing it was a Democrat and a partisan." Connolly was a Democratic candidate for governor two years ago (finishing third in a five-way race) and a delegate to this year's Democratic National Convention. There he handed out anti-Bush buttons proclaiming W Is for Wiener, and he has a web site...
...queasy - and not only because of my technological insecurities. The idea of spending four 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...
...Fairleigh Dickinson University, which announced in September that it would be the first-ever school to require its full-time unders to take one course online each year, may be onto something. Imagine if you could take that required science gut course online as opposed to in a 500-person lecture or polish off that one nagging credit over the summer. Or if two classes conflicted, you could complete one over the Internet on your own time. And I would definitely do the same for any class starting before noon...