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...guilty of hypocrisy. "If Sarah Brady owned a handgun, would you write about it?" asks Frank, who tumbled out of the closet years ago. Thus Arthur Finkelstein, the mastermind behind the campaigns of antigay conservatives, was outed last month by Boston magazine. And there is the ever more permeable barrier between public discourse and the upwardly churning tides of gossip. At the Washington headquarters of the gay G.O.P. organization Log Cabin Republicans, executive director Richard Tafel says the traffic these days in gay-sex rumors is bumper to bumper, especially on the not exactly authoritative Internet. "These names come...
Additionally, Harvard itself can be a barrier; it seems one place that by any other name might smell sweeter. My entryway discussed it the first week from the instant we applied here, the curtain descended and the barrier the tourists bring home cut us off from our classmates, even our friends. Others wear college paraphernalia ad nauseum yet even the mention of Harvard isolates us, because everybody falsely assumes we want them to feel left out. In the end, we are the ones who are isolated...
...Polaroid influences or cupping their hands over a window, trying to glimpse the lifestyle and secrets of the Harvard Student. Harvard is a place of tradition, and tourists, I gather, are a perennial tradition. So we should let the tradition continue. Just let them know the only barrier between tourists and Harvard students is something that they create--and something that traps us as well...
...printing pamphlets in multiple languages and encouraging equality in the real estate process, FannieMae tries to break down the substantial information barrier between mortgage financiers and American consumers, Johnson said...
...water flows over a reef, it stimulates the growth of all kinds of algae--including the microscopic diatoms and dinoflagellates that nourish such reef animals as the crown-of-thorns starfish. In recent years hordes of these coral-devouring starfish have infested Australia's 1,200-mile-long Great Barrier Reef, and soil-borne nutrients are at least partly to blame...