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The office of the presidency is a grand tradition. It is still, in many ways, a beacon to the world, shining as an example of what limited, moral, executive governance can be. This achievement, and plainly it is an achievement of gargantuan proportions is the result of the vision and dedication of a long string of men who have held this office. It is a product of the restraint and temperance of twenty generations of Americans that have set aside their political ambition and demonstrated temperance in politics. One need only turn to any decade on any continent of the...

Distributed nationally on the Knight-Ridder Tribune wire U.N. Treaty Targets MotherhoodBy Patrick F. Fagan and Brett D. Schaefer Who could object to motherhood? Or to Mother's Day, when we honor the sacrifices made by all mothers? The United Nations, that's who. Using a treaty known as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the United Nations for years has been urging nations worldwide to, among other things, discourage full-time motherhood and scrap observances of Mother's Day. And thanks in part to an action taken by the Bush administration, it may not be long...