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...educate students of both genders about issues facing women today. Finding a moderate voice, competing with men in the classroom and in the workforce, reconciling motherhood and careers, and learning to coexist with men, and even women, of different viewpoints—these should form the agenda of the center...
...Harvard’s conservatives, this episode is a blatant manifestation of sex-crazed juveniles and The Homosexual Agenda Inc. (Those crazy gays! They’re taking over the world!) They seem to think that the only reason a guy and a girl might want to live together is for a) incessant, vigorous sex or b) in order to topple civilization. Call me radical, but I find arguments against this legislation extraordinarily easy to dismantle, as they are, for the most part, based upon archaic Biblical fealty to Sodom and Gomorrah, fire and brimstone (Those crazy gays! It?...
Naturally, this debate would be nothing without the portion of the student body perpetually afraid of the homosexual political agenda, of which the proposed policy change is a clear manifestation. There is little I can say or do to ease these phobias, except to add—perhaps in jest—that the new initiative to allow men and women to room together would be a promotion of heterosexuality, while the current system of same-sex rooming seems the gayest...
...cloistered, Bush held two meetings with lawmakers on Wednesday - a morning session in the Cabinet Room with five Republican Senate leaders and 10 Republican House leaders, and an afternoon meeting in the Yellow Oval room with about two dozen Republican House members to talk about the legislative agenda. Those meetings, not surprisingly, became fodder for further speculation. Asked if the first group of lawmakers that came to the White House on Wednesday had raised the type of concerns that Coleman had, Scott McClellan answered sharply, "No, of course...
...recently allocated $75 million for activities designed to promote democracy and undermine clerical rule in Iran, and is reportedly gearing up the State Department for a more activist role in relation to Iran. The problem facing Washington this week, however, is that very few countries share a regime-change agenda for Iran, and if they suspect that this is the motive driving the nuclear confrontation, Washington may find it much tougher to keep allies on board...