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...Three could also try to break the logjam on voting weights that scuppered the constitutional talks in December, and they will likely produce small practical measures like liberalizing Europe's energy market and advancing a European patent board. Those are tiny steps for sure, but far better than marching backward - or beating each other bloody...
...pivotal goal in the period came less than four minutes later. Yale sophomore Matthew Craig took a shot from the left point that slipped through traffic in front of Daigneau. Daigneau knocked it down, but it skipped past him. He lunged backward and—in the opinion of both the goal judge and Yale fans seated behind him—stopped the puck before it completely crossed the line...
Similarly scrambling are films made primarily as Oscar contenders. The money a Cold Mountain, say, might earn with nominations in the flashier categories is factored into the projected gross and thus, working backward, the size of the budget. The film cadged seven nominations last week, but its sponsor, Miramax, has to be disappointed that star Nicole Kidman and writer-director Anthony Minghella, both previous Oscar winners, were stiffed--not to mention the film itself, denying Miramax a Best Picture finalist for the first time in 12 years. The company's co-chairman Harvey Weinstein is still determined to find...
...against gay marriage are surely familiar to nearly all by now. Those who oppose it insist that gay marriage is corrosive of family values and that homosexuals are deviants unsuited to raise children. Those of us who favor gay marriage are constantly repeating the obvious to counter such backward claims—that homosexuality is not intrinsically wrong and that if we want to strengthen families, the last thing we should do is deprive citizens of an institution that can facilitate strong family bonds. Indeed, it is sad that we have to continue fighting the same kind of flawed, regressive...
...history, great leaps of social progress, from emancipation to the women’s suffrage and civil rights movements, have almost always been achieved through the enfranchisement of those who have traditionally been oppressed. Surely, an amendment banning gay marriage in Massachusetts would be a significant step backward, both for the state and the nation as a whole...