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...went to every Harvard game, but I did not care the least about the Patriots," says Bennett H. Beach '71, a former sports editor of The Crimson. "The interest in watching football was very little at the time, and the Patriots did not quite make it among people here...
...themes and lofty issues, the whole shooting match had got pretty ugly by the end of the week. In an ad called "Stripes," the G.O.P. attacked the claim by Clinton's lawyer Robert Bennett that the sexual-harassment suit filed against Clinton by Paula Jones should be delayed until after the President leaves office, on the ground that the Commander in Chief may be entitled to the same kind of protections as active-duty personnel. The next day the Democrats offered an ad called "Empty." With a picture of a Senator's cluttered desk, the announcer says, "He told...
...natural-law argument against same-sex unions. This is the idea that marriage evolved in society over thousands of years as a childbearing union between a man and a woman, and that there is a profound wisdom in the tradition that should not be lightly discarded. Virtuecrat William J. Bennett contends that same-sex marriages "would do significant long-term social damage" to "society's most important institution." And that stretching the definition of marriage would jeopardize an already shaky institution...
...marriage is no different from sterile or elderly heterosexuals' marrying. Why should they have the right to marry and not homosexuals? But social scientist Wilson believes the raising of children remains the central role of marriage because "we have found nothing else that works as well." Besides, both Bennett and Wilson say, Sullivan undermines his own argument that the absence of children should not be an impediment to gay marriages when he says that it will give gay couples "greater freedom" to enjoy "extramarital outlets." Marriage, Bennett says, is not an open construct; "its essential idea is fidelity...
...While Bennett, 49, is credited with reviving a moribund VH1, analysts are skeptical about whether his rejiggered Prodigy can survive in a new-media field where even giants like AT&T have yet to make money. First to market or not, the question these days for many Web firms is whether there's a market...