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...county judge--an Old West title meaning chairman of the county commissioners--are openly gay. The district clerk is gay too, and Dallas is home to what is said to be the largest gay church in the world, the Cathedral of Hope, which has 3,500 members, a full choir, a violinist and long-stemmed roses in the bathroom. Dallas' fund-raising dinner for the Human Rights Campaign, the Washington-based gay group, is the largest in the nation, drawing 3,300 and raising more than $1 million for HRC and local gay organizations. And according to the gay group...
...more despicable as an idea than as a song. It's a ballad of course, and opens with a sample of a female Tech student saying how the school must be known not for what happened but for overcoming what happened. It also features the inevitable whispering choir whose volume rises in the chorus and gets punctuated by a cymbal clap...
...there was Mauer, in Game 5 of Golden State's stunning first round series upset over the top-seeded Dallas Mavericks, injecting himself into the action by ejecting Golden State forward Stephen Jackson with nine seconds left for that vile, repugnant offense - sarcastic clapping. Jackson, admittedly, is no choir boy: he received a 30-game suspension for his role in the notorious Pistons-Pacers brawl of '04. But the ejection was just silly, and it's only the latest instance of hot-headed NBA officials stealing the limelight by flaunting their power on the court...
...sign the HRC up as a nominal sponsor to the divestment campaign only undermines HRC’s credibility and takes away from what could be a larger, more intelligent advocacy role. In a place like Harvard, which so needs a dissenting voice at times, HRC has joined the choir...
...Recorded in Paris, Avignon, New York, Los Angeles, Reykjavik and Tel Aviv, its scattered geography was a strong influence on the album, which builds on the eclectic styles of her previous work with fuzzy guitars, trumpets, harmonicas, cellos and a few handclaps. The choirs heard on several tracks were born of several days in Reykjavik writing for an Icelandic choir. She sweetly sings, like she does on all her albums, about intimacy, heartache and the lives of couples, both strong and weak. She says that the songs themselves, all in English, couldn't have been sung in any other language...