At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.

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There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign...

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign...

If men were equally at risk from this condition -- if they knew their bellies...

If men were equally at risk from this condition -- if they knew their bellies...

Consider the vice president, George Bush, a man so bedeviled by bladder problems that he...

Consider the vice president, George Bush, a man so bedeviled by bladder problems that he...

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing -...

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing -...

That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the...

That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the...

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash...

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash...

We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.

We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around...

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around...

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

America is addicted to wars of distraction

America is addicted to wars of distraction

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia

Consider the vice president, George Bush, a man so bedeviled by bladder problems that he...

Consider the vice president, George Bush, a man so bedeviled by bladder problems that he...

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else....

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else....

I'm not a nice person.

I'm not a nice person.

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in...

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in...

Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband...

Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband...

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a...

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a...