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In calling the Holocaust "a myth," as he did last week, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has drunk from the bloody cup shared by the malevolent enemies of equality and justice, the ultra right-wingers and haters who live in history's shadows. Need it be said, again? The gas chambers, the bureaucratic system of murder, the efforts to sever an entire people from their place in this world, did happen, did exist and remains a unifying cause for those who choose justice, now and forever more. This latest outburst gives the Bush administration a second opportunity to send a strong message in...

I am proud to live in a country where religious freedom is a fundamental belief, and where our elected officials are judged by their performance in office, without religious tests. Though the beliefs they hold in their hearts surely inform every decision they make, elected officials are properly judged by the policies they pursue, not by the religion they practice or by their adherence to the tenets of our own religious beliefs. So, I was troubled to read that picketers protested Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s address to the Catholic Charities of Greater Boston Christmas dinner earlier this month, criticizing the...

What made Teresa Heinz Kerry so refreshing to some voters, and threatening to others on the 2004 campaign trail, is summed up when THK talks about her speech to last year's Democratic convention: "Nobody told me what to do," she told a Saturday fund-raiser here. The implicit afterword: Nobody better try. In her speech at the 2004 Democratic convention, Teresa Heinz Kerry said "no one will defend this nation more vigorously" than her husband, John Kerry. The sails of the philanthropist wife of Sen. John Kerry were not trimmed by November's narrow electoral defeat. The softly accented voice gives pointed...

A campaign convenience is no more. Teresa Heinz, the erstwhile Teresa Heinz Kerry, has stopped using the last name of her husband... Preceding its Women Who Make a Difference Awards dinner next month, the National Council for Research on Women is featuring "a conversation with Teresa Heinz," according to a release from the organization. The council failed to mention the final half of the Fox Chapel ketchup heiress' formerly elongated last name in several other references.

Do you think it’s easy being Teresa Heinz Kerry today? This is a sad weekend for the Beautiful People of Louisburg Square. Yesterday was the first anniversary of Sen. Liveshot Kerry’s grudging concession speech at Faneuil Hall, after he was narrowly defeated for the presidency by a mere 4 million votes. It’s been a sad year for the Kerrys and all their get-a-life, trust-funded supporters who refuse to remove the fading Kerry-Edwards bumper stickers. This week, New England Cable News reporter Alison King interviewed 67-year-old Mama T about life since the tragedy of Ohio. (They were robbed in the Buckeye...

Seen the Wallace and Gromit movie yet, "Curse of the Were-Rabbit"? I did...and noticed one character reminded me a bit of John Kerry. You see, W&G, who run a rabbit removal service called Anti-Pesto, are called upon by Lady Tottington (Teresa Heinz) for a bunny problem--including one particularly HUGE rabbit. But her beau, Victor Quartermain, says he can solve this problem ("Can I get me a hunting license here?"). Turns out he wants to marry her, but only for her money (hello? I'm John Kerry and I'm...reporting for duty!) He's a know it all, a fop, rude... "Proud, pompous, and...

A LIFETIME of hard work should bring economic security -- income sufficient to raise a family, and resources to enjoy a retirement earned over many working years. It is troubling that as far off as this goal seems to millions of American men, it is even further off for America's working women, especially in the area of retirement security. Even as families become more dependent than ever on second incomes, and the number of women as sole providers grows, women still earn less money than men; women are less likely to have a pension than men; and women are less...

Teresa Heinz drops 'Kerry' Compiled by Tribune-Review staff Sunday, February 6, 2005 A campaign convenience is no more. According to The Washington Times, Teresa Heinz, the erstwhile Teresa Heinz Kerry, has stopped using the last name of her husband, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, last year's Democrat presidential nominee. Preceding its Women Who Make a Difference Awards dinner next month, the National Council for Research on Women is featuring "a conversation with Teresa Heinz," according to a release from the organization. The council failed to mention the final half of the Fox Chapel ketchup heiress' formerly elongated last name in several...

Fresh Intelligence: Blips on the radarFormer first lady in wating Teresa Heinz is devoting her considerable wealth and resources to routing 'paleo con' Penn. Republican Senator Rick Santorum in the 2006 election, sources say.Last time she dipped into her (estimated 750 million dollar) war chest, it was for second husband John Kerry.This time it is to avenge the memory of her first husband Senator John Heinz, because she believes that 'Rick has ruined her late husbands legacy' says one Democratic insider.Despite their differing agendas Heinz-Kerry has been hosting fundraisers and campaigning around the clock for pro-life state treasurer Robert P....

As Senator John F. Kerry traveled the country on his presidential campaign last year, his personal investment portfolio earned him between $14,700 and $42,300 in addition to his Senate salary of $158,100, while his wife's investments made the couple millions more, according to financial disclosure forms released yesterday. Kerry reported ownership of four trust funds, with the combined value stated within the broad range of $430,000 to $2.56 million. They include holdings between $15,000 and $50,000 in companies like Procter & Gamble Co., Exxon Mobil Corp., General Electric Co., Pfizer Inc., Baxter International Inc., BellSouth Corp., and American Express Inc.,...

An accident delayed the start of Caldwell's Albertson College of Idaho Graduation today. Joining the graduates and faculty, you might call it a star-studded cast with commencement speaker, and the wife of former Presidential candidate John Kerry, Teresa Heinz Kerry. She joined Idaho's J.R. Simplot and Esther Simplot in offering words of encouragement. Mrs. Kerry talked about her appreciation of being able to see the stars again when she visits Idaho. "And if I were to wish on one today, I might wish that all Americans would commit to ensuring that each of us has access to a healthy and...

Urges Lawmaker to Allow All Americans to Build Retirement Nest Eggs With Personal Accounts As the U.S. Senate Finance Committee met today for a hearing about Social Security reform, the free-market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity named one of the committee's members, Sen. John F. Kerry, its inaugural "Investor of the Week" for his outstanding personal investment record and secure retirement future. The group also urged Sen. Kerry to back legislation creating personal accounts in Social Security, which would allow all Americans to build larger retirement nest eggs by investing some of their Social Security tax dollars in safe bond...

It looks like Teresa Heinz Kerry is rubbing off on her husband. And on Sen. Hillary Clinton. For the Republican Party, this is a very good thing. You'll recall that last month, Mrs. Heinz Kerry put on her shiniest tinfoil hat and blamed the Democrats' loss in November on rigged voting machines. As reported in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Mrs. Heinz Kerry openly questioned the election results and fixated on areas of the country where optical scanners were used to record votes. "Two brothers own 80 percent of the machines used in the United States," Mrs. Heinz Kerry intoned, and it...

It looks like Teresa Heinz Kerry is rubbing off on her husband. And on Sen. Hillary Clinton. For the Republican Party, this is a very good thing. You'll recall that last month, Mrs. Heinz Kerry put on her shiniest tinfoil hat and blamed the Democrats' loss in November on rigged voting machines. As reported in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Mrs. Heinz Kerry openly questioned the election results and fixated on areas of the country where optical scanners were used to record votes. "Two brothers own 80 percent of the machines used in the United States," Mrs. Heinz Kerry intoned, and it...

Former first lady-wannabe Teresa Heinz has donated $4 million to a Pittsburgh museum that frequently showcases artwork depicting U.S. human rights abuses - including exhibits on lynchings in America, the Rodney King beating and the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. Heinz Kerry "surprised" the director and staff of the Andy Warhol Museum Saturday night with news of her contribution, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The gift, the third largest in the museum's history, was approved in advance by the directors of the Howard Heinz Endowment, so it could be announced ahead of the foundation's normal grant-making in May, the paper said....

Teresa Heinz Kerry this week challenged about 250 doctors and scientists to help Americans "connect the dots" between environmental pollution and rising cancer rates. Her remarks in an opening address for a conference on health and the environment included a barbed reference to "the belligerent indifference of our leaders in Washington toward environmental health issues." She urged the group to continue studying the causes of drastically increased rates of breast and prostate cancers and childhood leukemia. Heinz Kerry appeared calm and comfortable even though her speech at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center-Shadyside was interrupted several times and finally cut...

Executors of the estate of the late Sen. John Heinz have withdrawn their appeal of a judge's ruling that opens the will to public inspection. Common Pleas Judge Frank J. Lucchino, in an order this month, granted petitions filed by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Tribune-Review Publishing Co. to modify an order that sealed the documents more than a decade ago. The estate documents, by court order without a public hearing, were impounded in Orphans' Court on April 5, 1991, a day after Heinz and six others were killed in a midair collision over suburban Philadelphia. The Los Angeles Times...

Judge unseals some Heinz records Associated Press PITTSBURGH – The public can see some records regarding the estate of the late Sen. H. John Heinz III, but others will remain sealed to protect the privacy and security of his widow, Teresa Heinz Kerry, and her family, a judge ruled. Attorneys for the Heinz estate had fought the efforts of two newspapers – the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – to unseal the estate documents. The newspapers argued the records could shed light on Heinz Kerry's charitable activities and whether she used some of her inheritance to help the White...

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