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...just sounds like they choose whoever would accept them,” he said. “I mean, what’s Robert Downey, Jr. done this year...

Author: By Margaret W. Ho, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bullock, Downey Jr. Tapped for Pudding Award | 2/6/2004 | See Source »

According to Parker, if the court had pursued a civil union approach, voters would have slowly come around to accept gay marriage...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HLS Panel Mulls Over Gay Marriage | 2/6/2004 | See Source »

...engineer the results to their liking. In an effort to mollify Sistani, the U.S. last week persuaded U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to dispatch a team to Iraq to explore the feasibility of holding elections by June 30. Aides to Sistani told TIME that he would be willing to accept a delay in the planned July handover of power if it meant that elections could be held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dealing With The Cleric | 2/2/2004 | See Source »

...sure, Washington lawmakers, including members of both parties, like to pretend all this is a matter of free will, that people make their choices and then must accept the consequences. But the right choices--going to school, working hard, saving for a down payment--used to offer a reasonable assurance of achieving the American dream. While most of us still have a decent shot at the good life, risk has been introduced into American life--the risk of never getting on track to prosperity, or falling suddenly from it--in ways few Washington policymakers would care to admit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has Your Life Become Too Much A Game Of Chance? | 2/2/2004 | See Source »

...faith-based charity best known for its disaster-relief efforts and thrift stores, hit the philanthropic jackpot when McDonald's heiress Joan Kroc, who died last fall of brain cancer, left it a record-setting $1.5 billion bequest. But the evangelical group spent several weeks debating whether to accept the windfall. Why look a McMegabucks gift horse in the mouth? The money comes as a mixed blessing because Kroc earmarked the donation to build--but only partly maintain--dozens of community centers across the country. A prototype for these lavish centers already exists in San Diego courtesy of Kroc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Salvation Army's Mixed McBlessing | 2/2/2004 | See Source »

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