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...House wanted him to make his requests through Department of Homeland Security, a change he resisted. "I was an infighter," he told the committee. He was frustrated with what he saw as a lack of focus on the threat posed by natural disasters, saying that FEMA had become a "stepchild in the department." If a terrorist had blown up the levees, he told the senators, he believed the DHS response would have been more aggressive. But after he testified, two officials at DHS suggested that Brown had only himself to blame, since his refusal to provide reports to Chertoff...
Named after a measure of time, Fifteen Minutes—or FM as it’s more commonly known—is the edgier and slightly retarded stepchild of the revered Crimson, a newspaper that makes the Wall Street Journal read like literotica.com. Thankfully, FM is not quite as boring; indeed, it’s a bit like a similarly named magazine called FHM, minus the boobs and stories about dudes who get blackout and make outrageous bets that usually involve one of them getting breast implants...
...more to undermine this most salutary restoration than the new and gratuitous attempts to invade science, and most particularly evolution, with religion. Have we learned nothing? In Kansas, conservative school-board members are attempting to rewrite statewide standards for teaching evolution to make sure that creationism's modern stepchild, intelligent design, infiltrates the curriculum. Similar anti-Darwinian mandates are already in place in Ohio and are being fought over in 20 states. And then, as if to second the evangelical push for this tarted-up version of creationism, out of the blue appears a declaration from Christoph Cardinal Sch?nborn...
...other hand, Democrats have treted black voters like an embarrassing stepchild. Despite turning out over 85 percent of their vote for such American heroes as Walter Mondale, black voters get nowhere near the gushing policy love from Democrats that the Republican base gets from their party. And to be fair, this is not even entirely the Democrats’ fault. Black voters have honestly allowed their votes to be given away like free iPods. Every election season, a parade of proven vote pimps roll through black churches to recite Hallmark card versions of Martin Luther King speeches and promise that...
While the Nelson household arrangement is unusual, it is nonetheless a sign of the times. Slowly, reluctantly, housework, the grubby stepchild of family responsibilities, is being adopted by men and shared a bit more equitably by couples. "There are few households in which [the division of labor] can be called equal," says Susan Strasser, author of Never Done: A History of American Housework, "but it's certainly the case that men do much, much more housework than they did 30 years ago." New data from the Labor Department show that among married men and women ages 25 to 54, women...