After Thursday’s supreme court ruling, stating that President Obama’s healthcare law did not, in-fact violate the Constitution, Mitt Romney’s campaign receives a flood of donations. However, both presidential campaigns are citing fund-raising spikes following the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold President Barack Obama’s health care reform laws. Obama’s campaign called the other side’s […]
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Kate Middleton Demoted? Duchess Ordered To Curtsy To Princesses Eugenie & Beatrice
Lest you thought the life of Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, was a nonstop fairy tale of posh parties, gratis fashion and domestic bliss with Prince William, think again. Even duchesses can’t escape a bit of drama from the in-laws, according to new reports that Kate has gotten a bit of a demotion in regards to […]
Roman Catholics: The Unlikely Cardinal
From the pulpit where he stood one day last week, Richard James Cardinal Cushing, 68, looked down not at the familiar Irish faces of his own Boston congregation but rather into the docile and questioning gaze of brown Peruvian eyes. The occasion was the blessing of a new brick-and-concrete Roman Catholic church in a slum suburb of Lima.
Peru’s Financial Panic: Fear of a New President
Peru is a mining country.
Inside Turkey’s Young Art Scene
First it was China. Then India
Essay: The Shoes of Imelda Marcos
A man’s Self is the sum total of all that he can call his. –William James, 1890 The palace doors came loose on their hinges, and the inventory began tumbling out of the overstuffed world of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos
A New Middle East
Ever since the end of the cold War, the U.S.
Essay: The Bright Cave Under the Hat
A man in a park in Phoenix showed me how to make a home out of cardboard boxes. Not a home, exactly, but something like a backyard playhouse built by an ingenious child
Where’d You Learn That?
The cute little couple looked as if they should be sauntering through Great Adventure or waiting in line for tokens at the local arcade. Instead, the 14-year-olds walked purposefully into the Teen Center in suburban Salt Lake City, Utah
Essay: Confessions of An Ivy League Reject
Twenty-five years ago this month, Harvard said no. So did Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Columbia and Williams.