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Litigator with a cause

by Bob Jones

Cover Story | Ken Connor seems to work in reverse. As an attorney in Florida, he helped put eldercare issues on the national political map. Now, as the new president of the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C., he's trying to sell the issue to a constituency that might have been seen as a natural starting point: evangelical Christians. "It's about reaching out with a cup of cold water, doing what Christ insisted was 'true religion,'" he explained from his new office at the edge of Washington's

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Homebodies

by Bob Jones

Cover Story | Enfeebled by age and unwilling to burden their families, many seniors waste away in nursing homes. But with millions of baby boomers beginning to peer into the twilight of their own lives, the search for nursing home alternatives is registering on the political radar screen. Many states, as well as the federal government, are wrestling with the issue of how best to accommodate an aging population-and programs based in home, faith, and community are gaining attention

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In this issue: "Aging in place," March 31, 2001

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Memo to Washington

by Mindy Belz

International |  Beyond empathy: A high-profile policy on Sudan needs careful behind-the-scenes calculations

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Back to basics?

by Gene Edward Veith

National |  The failure of the XFL and the return of baseball's high strike may signal a recovery of civilization

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Faith card or race card?

by Tim Graham

National |  Supporters of "charitable choice" go negative as others raise questions about the proposal

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Dispatches

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Quotables

The helm is right here-and that means in this chair for now, constitutionally, until the vice president gets here. Alexander Haig, then-secretary of state, to…

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QuickTakes

by The Editors

A glut o' glitterati:Julia Roberts complained about George Bush to an interviewer, saying "Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just…

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Faces

by The Editors

Thirty-three years after rescuing a fellow Marine whose name he still doesn't know, 52-year-old Jim Lockhart of Topeka, Kan., received the military's third…

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The Buzz

by The Editors

PLEA DEAL: CLINTON DONOR ACCEPTS RECORD FINE FOR ILLEGAL CONTRIBUTIONS Not Riady to rumble Indonesian businessman James Riady, sometime churchgoer and…

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Flash Traffic

by Joel C. Rosenberg

Political Buzz from Washington

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Video Rentals

by The Editors

Culture |  The top 5 videos in popularity as measured by rental receipts for the week ended March 11

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Failing into success

by Beth Impson

Culture |  A basketball player's trials led him down a life-changing road

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Voices

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Go for the vouchers

by Joel Belz

Time to cut through the malarkey and give them a test

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True character

by Marvin Olasky

Four theories of change, but only one offers true hope

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Mailbag

Drilling me softly Thanks to Marvin Olasky for his "third definition" of the word proselytize in the March 3 issue ("Nonnegotiable"). I represent a group of…

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