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Despite the crowds, the Bahamas still have more than enough hidden shoreline for you to find a sunny place to cast your blanket. The beaches downtown are a little more crowded, but they are also within walking distance of stores, hotels and restaurants...
...opposing the overly harsh tactics used by the police and the inane (or perhaps unthinking) collaborative effort of The Crimson in publishing the names of seven of those arrested, I am scolded by the editors of this revered daily for proposing "a blanket defense of anonymous sex in public places." We proposed no such thing...
...activists are wrong to imply such a blanket defense of anonymous sex in public places. Such action only reinforces the vicious stereotype of homosexuals as depraved...
...sassy after a nine-week recess in such sunny spots as Bermuda and Hawaii, congressional Democrats got a wet-blanket welcome when they returned to Washington last week. The capital's skies spat and drizzled. The public- approval rate of President George Bush had climbed to nearly 80%. And the early victory the Democrats had planned against Bush over his unpopular China policy proved a washout. In the process, both Congress and the White House made it clear that the uneasy partnership they attempted last year will give way to the partisan bickering of an election year...
Opponents charge that the organization agrees to compromise only when it sees that its blanket opposition to a new law is going down to defeat. That's what happened, critics say, in the 1985 fight over the bill to ban "cop killer" bullets and the 1988 battle over plastic guns. Moreover, many N.R.A. activists believe any attempt to regulate firearms is part of the "salami game": a slice-by-slice diminishing of their rights. Says N.R.A. past President Jim Reinke: "If we give in on the handgun waiting period and assault rifles, we'd lose half our membership...