Politically correct debate stirs letters to the Journal-World
Calder Pickett defends old books and voices concern over Western Civ revisions. He recalls teaching, references Murrow and Nietzsche, discusses inclusion efforts, and questions who gets left out in Great Books lists and education. He praises some women editors and writers while critiquing trends toward diversity over tradition.
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Journal-World
Mrs. Wilson
Wilson
Kitty Kelley
Nancy Reagan
Barbara Tuchman
Catherine Drinker Bowen
Jane Austen
George Eliot
Twain
Hawthorne
Melville
James
Willa Cather
Ellen Glasgow
Edith Wharton
John Calvin
David Hume
Chinese woman abandons newborn amid Beijing adoption delays
A Beijing birth left a girl infant behind amid one child policy pressures and legal hurdles. A Chinese American couple in San Francisco sought to adopt, but months of paperwork and local bureaucratic steps stalled the process. Several foreign families face lengthy, costly journeys through state run orphanages and notary offices as adoption rules loosen slowly.
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Beijing
China
San Francisco
South Korea
Liu Nanzheng
Justice Ministry
Liu
Quebec
Children of the World
Notary Office
Donna Anderson
Chere
Angelina
Chere Anderson
Forrest
Preparing a child for first sleepaway camp
Marianne Garber offers practical steps for parents guiding a 10 year old to a first sleepaway camp. Start with camp research, involve the child in plans from packing to expectations, address fears with practical solutions, create a survival kit, and arrange pre camp friendships or pen pals to ease separation and foster readiness.
American households carry heavy debt as 85 percent owed money
Washington reports 85 percent of U S households owed money on mortgages autos credit cards and department store wares last year. Fed study shows debt nearly tripled in ten years while analysts say the rise is not alarming though could temper consumer spending and slow the recovery. Home mortgage debt reached 2.6 trillion and consumer debt about 800 billion.
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Washington
U.S
Federal Reserve
Bruce Steinberg
Merrill Lynch Capital Markets
Steinberg
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Associated Press
Marianne Garber
Stephen W. Garber
Robyn Spitman
Cox News Service
Visory
Glamour Magazine
Coping News Service
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John D. McClain
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