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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...grandfather of horror/fantasy/sci-fi recently died. Much like him, you have a second home, in Los Angeles, almost completely devoted to horror memorabilia. Did you know him well? He was a huge influence in my life. When I was a kid, I actually wrote him a letter asking him to adopt me. Unfortunately, my father found the letter before I could mail it and he gave me quite a belting. But Forrey and I saw each other many times over the years. I was lucky enough to be a speaker at his tribute about a month ago. My library home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guillermo Del Toro on Vampires | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

...Repeated attempts to adopt a uniform policy across the hospitals have fallen prey to the hospitals’ independence...

Author: By Laura G. Mirviss and June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Curbing Conflict | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

...Dershowitz has urged Harvard to adopt a policy to ban any faculty from speaking at places that discriminate while representing the school in any official capacity...

Author: By Jillian K. Kushner and Eric P. Newcomer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Socially Stratified | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

...Friday morning, the government is expected to adopt a set of guidelines to fight the flu at the recently established Headquarters for Countermeasures Against Influenza A (H1N1) in Tokyo. The new guidelines will be a modification of an existing plan created to counter the more virulent H5N1 virus, known as avian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Japan, Swine Flu Spreading Quickly | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

...worst treatment from the police that I have ever received." He has been arrested four times since starting Gayrussia.ru in 2005. Still, Alexeyev says he will not stop until gay and lesbian couples have the same rights as all other Russians. "We want the right to adopt children and the right to get married." His work has come at a price. When he came out at 22, he was in the middle of pursuing a master's degree in law. But when he announced that the topic of his thesis would be gay-rights legislation in Europe, he was expelled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia to Gays: Get Back into the Closet | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

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