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Mommy Is Busy Right Now

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“Why are working mothers so furious all the time?” I was asked recently. An answer, not entirely rational, springs to mind: “Personally, I could use a travel agent.” It’s a joke, sort of. School vacation is coming up. I’m swamped […]

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NewsweekLisa Miller, mothers, stress, working mothers

How Tiger Dad is Handling Parental Infamy

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What was Jed Rubenfeld doing while wife Amy Chua was calling their children garbage and threatening to burn their stuffed animals? Colleagues speculate the brilliant Yale law professor may have tacitly signed on to those techniques, reports Newsweek’s Lisa Miller.

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NewsweekAmy Chua, Jed Rubenfeld, Lisa Miller, Tiger Dad, Tiger Mom, Tiger Mother

Tough Love, From a Chinese Mother

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A memoir of a woman’s take-no-prisoners parenting style hits a nerve. Amy Chua’s email in-box has become the latest front in the mommy wars. Ever since Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, her warts-and-all book on parenting the Chinese way, inflamed

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NewsweekAmy Chua, Lisa Miller, Tiger Mom, Tiger Mother

Jared Loughner Trial Could Expand Support for the Death Penalty

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The leering mug shot, the six dead, including a child—Jared Loughner may be the most unsympathetic defendant since Timothy McVeigh. And death penalty opponents worry his trial could spike support for execution. Death penalty opponents in the United States have

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Newsweekcapital punishment, death penalty, Jared Loughner, Lisa Miller

The Commuter Congress

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Families don’t move to Washington anymore, and lawmakers live on the road. Is this any way to govern? In its midcentury heyday, 50 or so members of the Senate Wives’ Club, met at 10 o’clock each Tuesday morning, Democrats and

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Feisal Abdul Rauf

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The imam behind the so-called Ground Zero mosque reflects on the “insanity” of religious radicals. How have the events of the summer changed you? We learned a number of lessons, the most important of which is this: the real battlefront

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Newsweek9/11, Ground Zero, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Lisa Miller, mosque, radicals, World Trade Center

Priority Check

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As recently as 2004, when evangelicals were credited with reelecting George W. Bush, sexual mores defined the culture wars. But as the economy has become the political priority for liberals and conservatives alike, traditional culture-war issues—abortion, gay marriage—have been blunted

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NewsweekAbortion, Christians, Conservatives, Glenn Beck, Lisa Miller, Sarah Palin

One Nation Under God

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Powerful new rhetoric on the religious right pits Obama and big government against ‘God’s America’—and promises to galvanize Christians in 2012. On Nov. 30, about a dozen moderate Christian leaders gathered for a meeting in Washington, D.C. Their colleagues on the religious

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NewsweekBarack Obama, Christians, Conservatives, Lisa Miller, Republicans

Love, Amish Style

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These novels raise questions about modern life. Why can’t we all be a little more like the Amish? This question lies at the heart of the Amish romance novels, churned out now with such regularity—and with such -success—that publishers are

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NewsweekAmish, Lisa Miller, love, modern life, Romance Novels

Divided We Eat

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As more of us indulge our passion for local, organic delicacies, a growing number of Americans don’t have enough nutritious food to eat. How we can bridge the gap. For breakfast, I usually have a cappuccino—espresso made in an Alessi

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