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...people were affected. But under the new law, anyone born before August 1972 and holding a "position of public trust" - an estimated 400,000 in all, including journalists, teachers and even factory-floor managers - may have to make the same declaration. Those who fail to get a clean bill of health from historians at the state archives, known as the Institute of National Remembrance, could be fired. Since the communist era ended, allegations of collaboration with the communist secret police have often been exploited by right-wing, postdissident parties to gain advantage over the the postcommunist left. Some former dissidents...
...company created a TV commercial featuring a man dashing to get ready for work; when he kisses his partner on the way out - to the tune of Tammy Wynette's Stand by Your Man - it becomes clear that his partner too is male. A veteran clean-up-TV activist panned the clip, and the ad was never aired. While tolerance for gays and lesbians seems to have increased since then, Britain's asa received dozens of complaints - deemed not worthy of an official probe by the watchdog - about a female-on-female kiss in a recent British...
Many respondents also had a negative view of emergency shelters—two-thirds of respondents were concerned about their conditions and security measures, with the most prevalent concerns being unsanitary conditions, a lack of clean drinking water, and susceptibility to violence...
...employees—who, coincidentally, are the only overweight people I’ve seen since landing in Africa—I don’t like our chances. They are not motivated enough. My time in Meheba has made me incredibly thankful for many things: access to food, clean water, health care, endless condoms (wishful thinking), and education. But, above all, my life here has made me appreciative of my right to speak out. I’ve been thinking a lot about Harvard, too. There, undergrads are renowned for our ability to complain about our social lives, academic...
...confessions: I cleaned my plate of the shrimp salad. It was a too-busy mixture of flavors, but the lettuce was clean; the shrimp were well seasoned and not overcooked; and the dressing wasn't too heavy. I didn't care for the Bourbon Street steak, but I ate most of a "Veggie Patch Pizza" even though it dishonored the very idea of pizza since the "ultra-thin" crust turned out to be a tortilla. I went back to the Jamestown Applebee's even after I had what I needed for this piece...