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by Ellen Goodman, Aspen Daily News Columnist Saturday, June 28, 2008 Well now, isn’t that a relief. The infamous “pregnancy pact” at
Gloucester High School turns out to be an urban legend. The media mobs
that descended on the fishing town may now pack up their cameras and
their moral outrage.
It’s all over, folks. Except for the 17 Gloucester girls in the late
stages of pregnancy or early stages of motherhood. And except, of
course, for the 140,000 other American girls between 15 and 17 who’ll
be having their own babies this year. Full Story »
by Ellen Goodman, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer Saturday, June 21, 2008 I remember when a subgroup of the abstinence-only movement first came
up with an escape clause called ‘secondary virginity.’ The idea was
that just because you had sex once didn’t mean you had to do it again.
This prompted a cynical question from a young lawyer in my family:
“Does that mean you can renew your virginity again and again? Or is it
three strikes and you’re out?” Full Story »
by Ellen Goodman, Aspen Daily News Columnist Saturday, June 14, 2008 So is the glass half full or half empty? Or to pick a better metaphor, is the “highest, hardest” glass ceiling now half shattered by the 18 million cracks, or does it look as impermeable as ever after this unsuccessful battering?
This has not been an easy week for ardent Hillary supporters who are being told to move on and move over to the Obama camp. The woman who looked improbably energetic and strong as she bowed out last Saturday reinforced both the respect and disappointment of her core supporters. Full Story »
by Ellen Goodman, Aspen Daily News Columnist Saturday, June 7, 2008 Somewhere in the waning hours of this interminable primary, I found
myself channeling Barack Obama as he began a long overdue and eagerly
anticipated conversation ... on gender.
“Tonight, I want to talk directly with the women of America. Full Story »
by Ellen Goodman, Aspen Daily News Columnist Saturday, May 17, 2008 During the Vietnam War there was a phrase that came to symbolize the entire misbegotten adventure: “It became necessary to destroy the village in order to save it.” It was said at first with sincerity, then repeated with irony, and finally with despair.
I have heard similar thoughts in the weeks since Texas authorities invaded a ranch in Eldorado and rounded up hundreds of children from the polygamous sect of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Did they traumatize the children in order to protect them? Did they shatter their lives to rescue them? Full Story »
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