Role models for youth. (News in Brief: United States).
Washington -- Actress and "Cover Girl" model Jennifer O'Neill Jennifer O'Neill (born February 20, 1948) is an American actress and author, born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the daughter of a Spanish-Irish businessman and his English wife. , who publicly admits to having had an abortion, has become a spokesperson for the pro-life cause. Recently, speaking to members of the U.S. Senate, she warned that abortion puts women at increased risk for cancer, suicide and depression.... The new Miss America is Erika Harold, a Christian woman who graduated Phi Beta Kappa Phi Beta Kappa: see fraternity.
Phi Beta Kappa
Leading academic honour society in the U.S., which draws its membership from college and university students. The oldest Greek-letter society in the U.S. from the University of Illinois University of Illinois may refer to: - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (flagship campus)
- University of Illinois at Chicago
- University of Illinois at Springfield
- University of Illinois system
It can also refer to: and has been accepted at Harvard Law School Harvard Law School (colloquially, Harvard Law or HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard Law is considered one of the most prestigious law schools in the United States. . She has been championing sexual abstinence programs in her home state of Illinois since she was in high school, and has reportedly spoken to more than 14,000 youth. Now that she is Miss America, officials of that organization have tried to muzzle her but Miss Harold refuses to be bullied, and is not ashamed of her stand on the abstinence issue. She says that abstinence is a natural tie-in to any programs aimed at stopping youth violence, because "if a young person is involved in a promiscuous lifestyle, it makes [her] vulnerable to other risk factors" ( from Muzzling Miss America, by Robert H. Knight Robert H. Knight was a draftsman of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, the law that attempted to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman for all federal purposes and allows states to resist demands to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states. , Culture and Family Institute report).
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