... 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 ...
... Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., has a book coming out early next month, and in it, she writes about male senators commenting on her weight. One colleague told her, “Don’t lose too much weight now. I like my girls chubby.” Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is suing the U ...
... and corporate institutions. Louis XIV, for example, stopped carrying golden notebooks of his expenditures and revenues, and his nation plunged into the red under the weight of multiple wars and opulent palaces. For a modern example of the importance of accounting, look no further than the collapse of Lehman Brothers ...
Modeled after the Harlem Children's Zone in New York, "promised neighborhoods" are being planned or underway in at least 20 states.
Its critics call the GDP an outdated metric that's ill-suited to assessing America's economic health. But it's a constantly evolving measurement, says Steve Landefeld, head of the agency that calculates it, that now includes the value of long-running American TV series.
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