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...Frugal Life I commend Nancy Gibbs for using her column to state what we are unlikely to hear from any elected official: that thrift is an important virtue and that our failure to practice it has helped bring on the current economic collapse [Oct. 13]. Those who lived through the Great Depression endured a scare that prompted them to scrimp and save, something the current generation does not do. Now Americans generally believe they are entitled to whatever they want without regard to whether they can afford it. The list of what we have come to consider necessities would stun...
...neighborhood residents have expressed support for one of the major parts of BC’s plan—its acquisition of a 16-story apartment building on Commonwealth Avenue, which would bring the school closer to its goal of housings all of its undergraduates...
...ruled that not even civil unions with all the legal trimmings of marriage can compensate. Gay-rights activists hope that Iowa's high court, will hear arguments in December and then rule as soon as January 2009 on a lower court's decision in favor of gay marriage, will bring judicial victories in state high courts to four...
...Kristina Wilfore, executive director of the Washington-based Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, an advocacy organization that specializes in using ballot initiatives to further liberal causes. Wilfore says her group picks its battles in fighting anti-gay-marriage amendments largely because most votes aren't even close. "We would never bring gay marriage up before the voters," she says. "This is [our opponents'] strategy." She admits they've been terribly good...
...sentence gives a big boost to the People's Alliance for Democracy, a coalition of anti-government protesters whose demonstrations helped bring down Thaksin in 2006. At the Government House on Tuesday, the official site of the PM's offices which PAD has now occupied for two months, protesters chanted, "Put Thaksin in jail," after the verdict was announced. Their ongoing fight against the former PM also helped push Thaksin ally Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej out of power in August. The PAD now claims the current democratically elected government, led by Thaksin's brother-in-law Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat...