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...John Cloud's "Are Gay Relationships Different?" [Feb. 4]: Comparing gay and straight relationships is like comparing apples and oranges simply because straight couples are formed by people who have been exposed to religious, social, familial, legal and cultural promotion of and support for such unions. Gay couples don't get any such reinforcement. In fact, they get the opposite, to the point of being attacked and demonized. Zeke Sutherland, Tampa...
...enjoyed John Cloud's "Breaking Down the Black Vote." I am from Tanzania, and like many foreigners who come to the U.S., I found out - to my surprise - that I belong to a pool of supposedly disadvantaged minorities. I struggle with the skewed concept of race in America. For some reason, having black blood is almost seen as some kind of contamination. How would this racial-political dialogue play out if, say, Obama were one-fourth or one-eighth black? I am reminded of the Christian teachings on original sin. However good, intelligent or capable a person you might...
...your résumé up on Yahoo! HotJobs just yet. There's a war for talent in Silicon Valley, and Microsoft is bleeding troops to Google (which is bleeding troops to Facebook). Microsoft needs you. Just keep muttering something about cloud computing. That's hot right...
...theories of political insiders collide with the physical realities of time, space and human endurance. That's when the logic starts to go haywire. The candidates grow hoarse and punchy. The well-crafted speeches devolve into strings of half-garbled sound bites. Yesterday's gaffe vanishes in the cloud of today's dustup. Who can keep track? It's a morning rally in St. Louis, noontime in St. Paul, nighttime in San Diego, and--saints preserve us--the campaign suddenly has all the coherence of Alice in Wonderland shouted from a speeding bus or airplane...
...spite of the impending modernization, there is a cloud of gloom over the crowd of investors and spectators anxiously watching the board. Iraq is still adjusting to a free market economy from one where state-run socialism reigned supreme. Today the government doesn't protect industry; furthermore, goods coming from abroad undercut local manufacturing. This all happened suddenly and swiftly. "To be honest, the war destroyed us," says one elderly gentleman in a yellow scarf and round spectacles...