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Alexandria, Va. Behind an Old Town fish-and-chips restaurant displaying a pirate flag is an unmarked door with a blue light denoting the entrance to PX. After you ring the bell, a host's eyes appear in a peephole, and a voice beckons you upstairs?or denies your entry because the place holds only 30 people. Inside, the bar is decked out with mirrored walls and glass chandeliers. Just like in the 1920s (the bar's era of inspiration), bartenders hand-make cocktail mixers, including the tonic water, bitters and fresh-squeezed juice. eamonnsdublinchipper.com...
...legislators, or one quarter of the members of the Massachusetts House and Senate, vote to approve a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in legislative sessions in both 2010 and 2011, the measure could appear before voters in the 2012 elections...
...into the second period when senior center Paul Dufault cut towards the net from Dekanich’s right side and stuffed in a behind-the-net pass from junior forward Steve Rolecek.But even in the second period, Harvard’s inability to dominate the game began to appear, as the Raiders outshot the Crimson, 15-4, in the second period alone. Though sophomore goaltender Kyle Richter remained perfect in the period, Colgate did manage to send several cross-ice passes in front of the Crimson net for quality shots. By the end of the game, Colgate had managed...
...Moreover, the Democrats didn’t run as a team, but as a group of mayoral candidates. Because the highest vote-winner of the majority party is traditionally named mayor, many voters, the Journal Inquirer reports, appear to have voted for only one of the Democratic candidates, instead of all six of them, to improve his or her chance of becoming mayor. Unfortunately for the Democrats, this so-called “bullet voting” cost them the election...
...Brother over what it called explicit sexual content that could corrupt the nation's youth. Uganda is still a deeply conservative nation, with laws banning homosexuality and abortion. Yet Ugandans are fascinated despite themselves by a Western-style show that showcases Africans engaged in commonly frowned-upon vices. Editorials appear weekly in local newspapers analyzing the latest sordid development...