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...MODELING SEXUAL ORIENTATIONThis year, the organizers of Eleganza hope to expand their mission of promoting diversity in the arts by addressing the issue of homosexuality. The 2009 show is funded in part by a grant received from The Open Gate Foundation, managed by the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus. The criterion for the grant’s award is rather open-ended, stating simply that it must go towards supporting student, faculty, and employee groups that further a climate of open discussion on issues related to sexual orientation.According to Navarro, the show’s proposal laid out three ways...
...chamber, Jon Favreau, Obama's 27-year-old speechwriter, stood nervously with his back against the wall, alternately mouthing the words as Obama spoke them, applauding and checking his BlackBerry for reactions from the ether. At the other end of the chamber sat a diminished Republican caucus, self-consciously rising and falling like pistons to show their alternate approval and disdain for the President's policy prescriptions...
...Democratic caucus had its moments as well. In the very next line, Obama began, "With the deficit we inherited" - but could go no further because of Democratic delight in pointing out that today's fiscal problems were delivered by a Republican President and Republican Congress. The same group was equally delighted when Obama said that Bush had used the budget surpluses of 2000 as "an excuse to transfer wealth to the wealthy instead of an opportunity to invest in our future...
...with Specter, are nearly the last survivors of a once common species of moderate Northeastern Republican. As the GOP's center of gravity moves to the right, the Democratic majority has fewer and fewer potential crossovers to choose from. That gives each woman enormous leverage in a Senate Republican caucus whose leaders cannot afford any defections if they are to sustain a filibuster. Both sides know that the math on any close vote is likely to come down to Snowe and Collins...
...cuts to state aid and education dollars that were made to woo the crucial votes of three Republican Senators as well as moderate Democrats. Three hours and a few tweaks later, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi finally announced her support. "We're having a very - shall we say - highly spirited caucus right now, people's spirits are high," Pelosi said, emerging from a meeting of House Democrats. "They're very proud of the work that we did in the House to create up to 4 million new jobs." The deal could come to a vote in the House as early...