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Actress Gillian Anderson gushed over meeting former President Bill Clinton in 1992, which she said was such an “intimate” experience, that she expected to get a phone call from him afterward. Gillian Anderson recalled the “intimate” experience she had while meeting Clinton for the first time in 1992, when she attended a luncheon at someone’s house while he was campaigning for president.

One Democratic presidential candidate talks about his prostate cancer in a campaign TV spot. Several recall openly that they smoked marijuana, and another says "sorry" in admitting that he hasn't. Their stump chatter touches on grief counseling or how a family deals with a married daughter coming out as gay. America has learned that the death of a beloved teenage son reshaped one candidate's perceptions and that the miraculous healing of a toddler son altered another's priorities. Confession, tears and emotion have become campaign strategies. The "Oprahization" of politics has escalated during the Democratic presidential primary season. The candidates "want...

Forget marital breakdown, high rates of divorce, and the number of children born outside of marriage. Endless discussions about the 'crisis' facing the family distract attention from trends that are likely to have a far greater impact on how we live. The truth is that adults are not only finding it difficult to sustain marriage, but just about all forms of intimate relationships. According to a study conducted by the UK Future Foundation for Abbey National in January 2002, for the first time more people are living alone or in one-parent households than in a traditional family unit - or...