For a generation, America has been awash in the celebration of minorities and minorities celebration of themselves. Just recall Black is Beautiful or I am a woman, I am invincible.
"Santa's gone home. Santa's @!$%#ing dead." As theme park slogans go, it's a winner. Sadly, it wasn't the official tagline for Lapland New Forest, the temporary Christmas attraction that was forced to close last week after furious visitors demanded their money back.
Swiss bankers are not known as paragons of transparency and moral accountability, so it's a nice surprise to read that the top officials of UBS, the foundering financial institution recently bailed out by the Swiss government, will forgo twenty-seven million dollars in compensa …
Excerpt: "We name and shame the celebrities who can't live without their nicotine fix..."
A thing is about to happen which has not happened since the Elder Days. - J.R.R. Tolkien It has been a long and terrible time since tomorrow mattered as much as it does today.
I was sitting at my desk in the refurbishment department of MCI, wearing a long-sleeve Ralph Lauren denim. The date was June 23, 1994. My thoughts were on something company-oriented when the telephone rang and I answered.
Going to the doctor can be stressful for overweight and obese women, according to a new study.
Even though Nassau County (New York) Executive Thomas Suozzi says he will purge the county's DWI database in response to a judge's ruling that it violated a defendant's rights, odds are that the information about that defendant's arrest will be floating around the Internet for ye …
A man has taken his son to court in Nigeria for being idle – with the result that his son was jailed for six months.
"There are millions of people around this world praying to their god — whether it's Hindu, Buddha, Allah — that his [McCain's] opponent wins, for a variety of reasons," said Arnold Conrad, former pastor of Grave Evangelical Free Church.
Displays of social emotion may be in part configured by our cultural upbringing (nurture), but our evolutionary history has likely laid the frame which culture molds.
The victory stance of a gold medalist and the slumped shoulders of a non-finalist are innate and biological rather than learned responses to success and failure, according to a University of British Columbia study using cross-cultural data gathered at the 2004 Olympic and Paralym …
Recently, I took my 5-year-old grandson to see the animated movie "Kung Fu Panda." My aim was to spend time with a boy I'm fond of, to hold his hand during the scary parts and to listen to him recount every bit of the main character's bathroom humor on the way home, so I was surp …
A teenage girl who lied about being raped by a taxi driver should be "named and shamed", her devastated victim said today. Taxi driver Aftab Ahmed, 44, of Allerton, Bradford, was accused of rape in January last year after driving the girl home.
Long recognized as an ardent defender of human rights, and champion of the Rule of Law, America has been unceremoniously stripped of her glorious garments of Freedom, Truth, and Justice, and clothed in the dirty rags of Oppression, Deception, and Despotism
A small commentary about the shameful endorsement given to Barack Obama by John Edwards.
We are dedicated to battling the stigma, shame, and myths surrounding mental disorders that prevent so many people from getting the help they need.
"She knows better. Shame on her. Shame on her," Obama told an audience at a union hall here.
BAYTOWN, Texas -- A 14-year-old gave birth to a baby in a junior high school bathroom and tried to flush the newborn down the toilet, killing the infant, police told Houston television station KPRC. Grief counselors helped students and staff on Thursday deal with the incident.
I was saddened to hear about a Soldier throwing a puppy off a cliff in Iraq. And I cant believe that someone, especially a Soldier would throw a puppy off cliff and smile and smirk in a video afterwards.
At least 3,000 young women in Britain are the victims of forced marriages each year, with the scale of the problem far bigger than originally thought, according to a groundbreaking report out this week.
Over the next few years, the pharmaceutical business will hit a wall. .......arrr Shame....
Snowy white Santa beards may hide more nastiness than you'd care to guess, Roger Highfield reports.
The Christmas anti-drink drive campaign is in full swing, but there will always be those who think they can get away with it. Beyond the points, the driving ban and the criminal record, how do those caught handle the shame?
Disappointment sucks, and I feel it acutely, especially here.