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...Modena is the latest battleground over gay-straight alliances--student-organized clubs that promote the rights of gays, lesbians and bisexuals. Active in scattered locations for about a decade, they turned into something of a national movement after the 1998 murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard. There are now more than 700 gay-straight clubs in schools from Iowa to New Jersey to Georgia, according to the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network. Members need not identify their sexual orientation, and many alliances serve primarily as forums for discussing all things teen. "It's really important to feel there...
Gettysburg, as everyone knows, is in Pennsylvania, but George W. Bush can't wait that long. And so he's going to make his stand here, turning South Carolina into his battleground to once and for all dispel the notion that Republicans should consider voting for John McCain. Bush says he can certainly see why Democrats would; on Sunday he told Tim Russert on "Meet the Press" that those sly Dems were planning on pulling the McCain lever just so they could stack the deck in favor of their candidate in the general election. Although this seems to veer dangerously...
Call out the medics! The issue of health care is shaping up to be the bloody main battleground between Democratic presidential candidates Al Gore and Bill Bradley. On Monday Bradley, in a speech to the American Public Health Association, outlined his proposal to blanket 95 percent of the population with health care coverage. Bradley claims his plan will cost $500 to $650 billion over 10 years, and can be easily paid for out of the $1 trillion in expected budget surpluses in that period. At the same time, he dug into Gore as showing a lack of guts...
This is "retail politics," a genre of campaigning usually reserved for early battleground primary states like New Hampshire and South Carolina...
Bradley arrives in Massachusetts the day after two polls showed him to be in a dead heat with Vice President Al Gore '69 in New York, a traditional battleground for Democratic delegates. In March, a similar poll showed Bradley trailing by nearly 17 points...