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...Oregon constitution dictates that "no law shall be passed granting to any citizen or class of citizens privileges or immunities which, upon the same terms, shall not equally belong to all citizens." Sowle largely based a quick preliminary opinion on that language: the county not only could offer marriage licenses to gays...
...Halime Hassan Osman, Sudan is no place to pray. The wells that once supplied water for her daily ablutions now belong to members of the Janjaweed, a rampaging, government-backed Arab militia that has forced hundreds of thousands of black villagers like Osman to flee their homes in western Sudan. Osman, about 50, now lives in an unsheltered refugee camp in Mahatama, Chad. After a failed attempt to recover her belongings from her village, she prays in a dry riverbed along the border between Sudan and Chad. She and other elderly women are the only ones from the camp...
...career travels. “In my musical journey, I have had the opportunity to learn from a wealth of different musical voices… As we interact with unfamiliar musical traditions we encounter voices that are not exclusive to one community. We discover transnational voices that belong to one world…and [when] we enlarge our view of the world we also deepen our understanding of our own lives and culture...
...Cape on the one hand, and its current attempts at diversity on the other. The student body has settled at a level of neo-prep, meaning that kids who wear the polos with the collars up may or may not be WASP-y lacrosse players who belong to the Fly. It’s hard to tell—a kind of hip New York attitude mixes itself in, jeans are suddenly more apropos than khakis, aviators improve any look and girls who wear pearls may be doing it ironically...
...course it does. Because we’re not interested in personal freedom of thought. What we really want is to be in good company. It’s oh-so-comfortable to belong to a group of people who share your opinions, even if that group is abstract and statistical—numbers on a page. If we really wanted to think for ourselves, we’d demand to be rid of the oppression of the “general public” and its confounded opinions...