Word: apartness
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...Padgett knows what being out in Wyoming can mean. He went to school with Matthew Shepard--their little smiling faces are just pages apart in the ninth-grade yearbook--and when Padgett moved back to Casper from Yale University, Shepard was part of his circle. "We weren't that close," says Padgett, 26. "But it felt very personal when he died. It hit me very hard. If you had asked me two weeks before if someone could be killed in Wyoming for being gay, I would have said no. We are a state that respects individuality, and we are immune...
...people in the state of Wyoming," says de Vries. "The thing that happened when Matt was murdered was that for the first time, I think, the state as a whole was forced to realize that there were gay people living here... Among gay people, the reactions were so far apart: some people dove back into the closet under the laundry. Other people said, 'Screw it; I'm coming...
...looked like a reckless misjudgment for Roh to make a unilateral call for a show of public support. Some interpreted this bombshell and the resignation drama as desperate but calculated ploys to elicit voters' sympathy?while others merely saw them as evidence that Roh's faltering presidency is coming apart at the seams just eight months after he took office. "He's not taking the pressure very well," says a foreign businessman who once counted himself as a Roh supporter. "I can even see a scenario in which he opens his mouth at the wrong time and resigns." Says...
...ready for a guidebook that's less rough and more refined, take a look inside the LOUIS VUITTON CITY GUIDES. These slim volumes ($55 for a set of eight, covering 35 European destinations) are tailored to slip discreetly into one of those famously monogrammed handbags. Apart from listing the finest hotel, dining, shopping and touring options, the books provide arcane survival tips for fastidious travelers, such as the fact that Blossom & Browne's Sycamore Laundry in London uses "softened water to protect your Pradas." But not all the attractions have five-star ratings. Flea markets happily coexist with big-name...
...until the Iraqi people have an infrastructure in place to maintain the peace and support a democratic government ... so that the crazies and religious fanatics won't tear everything apart and ruin the country again. Betty Lott Toledo, Ohio...