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Like so many other who condemn homosexuality as "shameful" or "vile," lat focuses on sex to the exclusion of other, oftern more important, aspects of homosexual relation ships or heterosexual ones,. for that matter--love, mutual attraction, support and self-sacrifice, to name just...
...Budget Office is expected to release its own report on the Administration proposal, and aides to Senate Democrats predict the findings will be, as one put it, "unfavorable." If the CBO decides the new insurance premiums are actually a tax in disguise, critics will find it even easier to condemn the whole approach as a tax-and-spend extravaganza that would add 25% to the federal budget by 1998. "Bad as this week was," said one Democratic Senate aide, "next week will make this week look easy...
...every shop will succeed, nor will every one be geared towards students. But to condemn the project before the shops have even had the benefit of the summer season--which draws large crowds of non-students to the Harvard Square area--is wrong...
What rankles some blacks is that some whites feel a need to make all black leaders speak out whenever one black says something stupid. "People are deeply offended that whites always seem to feel that they have to tell black people what to object to, what to condemn," says Clayton Riley, a talk-show host on WLIB, a black radio station in New York City. "There is no comparable kind of instruction to whites...
Last month Senator Ernest Hollings joked about Africans being cannibals, but no other white Senators were pressured to condemn him. Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern make questionable racial remarks, and yet former President Bush invited Limbaugh to the White House, and Senator Alfonse D'Amato attended Stern's book party. Says Jackson: "There is a broad base of objectionable language used by a lot of people in high places. It's not just Farrakhan." Or Muhammad. To make all black leaders responsible for his words, it might be argued, is just another kind of bigotry...