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...It’s a privilege to wed the person you love and want to spend the rest of your life with,” Simmons said of her wife, who is an administrator with a program that aims to aid young women in the juvenile detention system in New York...
...upscale clothing—has elicited unwarranted student criticism and media attention. Given that the profits from the clothing line—which will sell men’s shirts for $160 and sportcoats for as much as $495—will directly benefit Harvard’s financial-aid program, it is misguided to blame the university for doing what it can to pay its bills, even if that means allowing Harvard’s name to adorn crimson-lined blazers and madras shorts reminiscent of the 1950s “good-old-boy” era. Some students...
Worldwide, there are more than twice as many displaced people - about 25 million - as war refugees, according to the U.N. But because they do not cross international borders, which can provoke the wrath of governments and the attention of aid groups, they are sometimes overlooked. In Colombia, most people live in the cities where security has improved. By contrast, the displaced are often impoverished Indians and Afro-Colombians who live in the most remote pockets of the countryside where few votes are at stake...
...record also shows general support for limiting executive power, smoking prevention, and alternative energy, though he was accused of NIMBY-ism in his opposition to Cape Wind, a proposal for an offshore wind farm near Cape Cod. In the last decade, Kennedy has pushed for accountability and greater humanitarian aid in Iraq...
...give McGwire, Sosa, Bonds, or any other pariahs the ability to hit major-league pitching. All but the most ardent moralists and car-radio screamers would grant that most of the now tarnished stars of baseball’s Juiced Era were skilled ballplayers even without the aid of chemical enhancement. PEDs let great athletes leverage their skills to even higher, previously unimaginable levels. They enabled marginal athletes to make massive sums of money playing a kids game. And they allowed baseball to return to the glory it had lost in the 1994 strike...