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...marriage supporters do press the vote again, they will have one ready source of allies - the 18,000 couples who were married in the brief window of time when gay marriage was legal in California and whose marriages remain intact. The court unanimously upheld those marriages in Tuesday's opinion. At the end of last week, as if anticipating the court defeat, the Human Rights Campaign, a gay-rights advocacy group, released an inspirational video to rally support, promising that the 18,000 couples and their friends around the country would not be backing down. (See pictures...
...already done more to close ranks with China than anyone in Taiwan's brief history. Ever since Ma's political party, the Kuomintang, fled mainland China to Taiwan after losing a civil war to Mao's communists in 1949, relations between the two have been antagonistic at best. Beijing treats Taiwan as a runaway province and has blocked the democratic Taipei government from receiving diplomatic recognition or participating in many international forums. Both sides armed the Taiwan Strait to the teeth, turning it into one of Asia's most dangerous military flash points. Contact between them has been grossly restricted...
...Read a Brief History of the Palme...
...brief remarks to the court, Carney, the defendant’s attorney, sought to humanize his client, detailing his personal aspirations and his family background...
...these are not exhausted students. The departing individuals—with their brief cases, lunch bags, and name tags—have just finished counting hundreds of exam booklets, carefully matching each one to names printed on an attendance sheet, checking the spelling of each to make sure that all were accounted...