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...assertion that homosexuality is on biologically shaky grounds is just that--an assertion. As highlighted as an argument against the activities of the BGLTSA [Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian and Transgendered Supporters Alliance] in Oppenheim's article, it harkens back to the pseudoscience of 19th-and 20th-century race theorists. Perhaps some might agree with Oppenheim that "basic models of ethics and of sexuality are two of those foundations...that preserve a society's stability." But these are same people who object to the presence of women anywhere outside the kitchen. If a society cannot with-stand the integration of queer culture...
Everyone knows that late 20th century America, where no-parent households, Marilyn Manson and the National Rifle Association all converge, is not for the faint of heart. But how did it become a place where kids gun down other kids...
Viewers will not be looking at a conventional broadcast news set. Instead, CBS News anchor Dan Rather will walk through a computer-generated gallery of some of the century's most luminous and unforgettable faces. "We're using 21st century technology to sum up the 20th century," says Andrew Heyward, president of CBS News. Strolling about electronically among those famous names was thought provoking, says Rather: "Watching the program, participating in discussions and trying to think of candidates for my own private TIME 100, I've had a rare opportunity to reflect on what's important...
...irrationality and their dramatically imaginative lives, which conjure monsters and heroes and set them in motion--whole Iliads. Those imaginations sometimes indulge crazy fantasies of revenge and annihilating vindication. The vulnerability, anger and extreme fantasies of children have been a constant over the centuries, I think. The late 20th century has not reinvented human nature, even though American perfectionism, in league with what is perhaps the amnesia of the dollar people on the subject of human tragedy, may encourage that illusion...
Senior tri-captain James Butera, junior tri-captain Dustin DeNunzio, junior tri-captain Ed Mosley, and sophomore Fran Volpe all traveled to Cleveland State for the 1998 National tournament March 20th...