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... in 1982, at age 46. "I didn't have a dad in the house," Obama said last year during a White House event for My Brother's Keeper, his initiative for young men. "I was angry about it, even though I didn't necessarily realize it at the time." Obama ...
... that I had not only been naive but culturally insensitive was the sight of Burt and her sister walking toward the studio, laboring under the weight of numerous stuffed satchels and rolling a suitcase. When the bags were opened, they overflowed with embroidered silk, massive gold jewelry and a couple ...
... GWEN IFILL: The discovery that one of the brothers involved in the Paris attacks received al-Qaida training in Yemen put that terrorist group and Yemen back in the spotlight. Joining me for more on the threats from both, and the U.S. strategy to try to contain them ...
... over political differences. Mark Shields: While, to the world, we may be sophisticated grownups who know what wine to order with swordfish, our families (especially brothers and sisters and parents and cousins) remember us today as yesterday—when we were scared of the dark, before we could ride a bike ...
Listen to Alison Powell read her poem “The Fields” from her new collection, “On the Desire to Levitate.” The Fields A boy is raised up in the fields. He knows his hard feet in the husks. He knows his mother, her bottles and naps. Knows his brother's war dreams ...
... million immigrants living in the country illegally. Grimes was heavily recruited by Democrats to challenge McConnell, but her support eroded in recent polls under the weight of attacks by McConnell and his allies. While McConnell has been plagued by low approval ratings, he has sought to turn the election into ...
... and its human and natural resources. So we have to stop them. GWEN IFILL: A short distance away, Secretary of State John Kerry lent his weight to the cause, opening what organizers are calling climate week. He underlined findings that 2013 saw the largest single-year increase in carbon pollution ...
... Peterson. What you should really be embarrassed about a half-a-billion dollars of taxpayers' money that the governor of Minnesota gave to the Wilf brothers to build the stadium in which they will keep all of the profits. If people become more aware of those issues, if football becomes ...
Today in the Morning Line: Executive action on immigration could shake up midterms Both parties eyeing Obama’s decision for impact Rand Paul takes aim at Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy The GOP’s trouble winning over women voters Both sides on edge over Obama immigration action: Could President Barack Obama’s impending decision on executive steps to address...
Leaders have known how to do good accounting for nearly a millennium, but many financial institutions and regimes have just chosen not to do it. Historian Jacob Soll traces the origins of capitalism and representative government to basic accounting, and argues that financial and political crises often stem from the breakdown of a culture of...
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