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More important, Hawaii's openly gay community remains fledgling and poorly organized. The islands aren't a paradise for openly gay people. Though the state's multiethnic complexion requires racial tolerance, it's a mistake to think that "the aloha spirit" automatically extends to openly gay people. "The bigotry is there," says Kenneth Miller, 43, a gay man who was born and reared in Hawaii and now works for a gay group. "A lot of us leave for a while, go to the mainland. Many people stay there...
...claiming that the Vatican has yet to open all pertinent archives. Others, like the Rev. Richard McBrien, a professor of theology at Notre Dame, feel they know enough to conclude that outrage on Pius' part "would have given pause to the Nazis and perhaps changed the complexion of what happened at the end of the war." McBrien contrasts Pius' silence with John Paul II's risky but successful support of Poland's Solidarity trade union in the 1980s. Some analysts speculate that valid or not, the impulse to protect Pius crippled the Vatican's March statement We Remember, a long...
...again and again, even when not asked, that when the time comes to consider impeachment, they will do so, and meanwhile they reserve judgment. This is sort of like your brother-in-law saying that although you're probably in perfectly good health, there is an ashenness in your complexion that suggests terminal liver cancer, and God forbid it should happen, but if it does, he would like to have your lake cabin...
...voted against minority set-aside programs in federal contracting, against creating majority-black congressional districts and even questioned the logic of Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 landmark ruling that struck down segregated schools. It's the substance of those judicial opinions that offends Thomas' critics--not his complexion...
...artistic Prometheus of the century, then Pop artist Andy Warhol was its Pan. Pop is the realm where American art gave up its spiritual reach in exchange for the bounty of commerce. Warhol, more than any of his peers, was its avatar, its passive-aggressive emperor with a tapioca complexion and a pale wig, gliding through its landscape as prankster and publicist, pariah, sexual cipher, parvenu...