Monthly Archives: August 2008

Her Competence and Integrity are What Count, but Governor Palin Should Update Her Look, Too

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In complaining that Senator John McCain is making a cynical choice to appeal to women and Evangelical voters in choosing as his running mate Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska, critics are saying a great deal more about themselves than about Governor Palin.

It’s no wonder some leftists are exercised. In many cases, they …

Breaking the Silence to Aid Victims of Family Violence

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From The New York Daily News

By HEATHER ROBINSON

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A survivor of domestic violence and rape, Katarina Tepesh has spent much of her adulthood trying to forget.

But after Sept. 11, the 58-year-old Croatian, who immigrated to New York at 17, started trying to remember.

An upper …

Thank Heaven For Little Girls

From The New York Daily News
By HEATHER ROBINSON

Overlooked in the controversy over whether China’s women gymnasts - including He Kexin, winner of this week’s tiebreaker for the gold medal in uneven parallel bars - are of age (16, as required by the International Olympic Committee to compete in the Olympic Games) is a …

Thank Heaven For Little Girls

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From The New York Daily News
By HEATHER ROBINSON

Overlooked in the controversy over whether China’s women gymnasts - including He Kexin, winner of this week’s tiebreaker for the gold medal in uneven parallel bars - are of age (16, as required by the International Olympic Committee to compete in the …

Former Lost Boy of Sudan to Carry American Flag in 2008 Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony

If you’re watching this year’s 2008 Olympic Games (NBC will broadcast from Beijing starting Friday August 8 at 7:30), be sure to look out for former Sudanese refugee and “lost boy” Lopez Lamong. A Southern Sudanese Christian who as a boy ran for his life from genocidal war that pitted the Arab Islamist government …