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He said the first part with remarkable comfort for a straight man, the kind of effortless understanding that gay people don't always get at home, school or work, and certainly not from most politicians. "Tonight, somewhere in America, a young person - let's say a young man - will struggle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Gay Outreach: All Talk, No Action | 10/11/2009 | See Source »

“For some reason he has disappeared from his customary perch above the President’s head,” Lewis added, as Faust looked up and around in confusion and seemed to mouth to this year’s parliamentarian Thomas F. Kelly, ?...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi and Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Faculty Meeting Lacks Usual Cookies | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

The singing man dressed in a colorful parka who is often on his knees scrubbing graves in Cambridge’s Old Burying Ground often elicits confusion in Quad students walking to and from class. But Dario Fiorentini’s enthusiastic abandon is due to his passion for his...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Guardian of Graves Saves Burial Ground | 10/6/2009 | See Source »

Was it an omen when the power went out halfway through the Governors' Global Climate Summit? The 1,200 representatives from more than 70 states, provinces and countries in attendance at California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's global warming conference were about to convene for panels on the green economy and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are the Governors Our Best Hope for the Climate? | 10/2/2009 | See Source »

The grammatical rule governing phrasal adjectives compounds the confusion (no pun intended); multi-word descriptors (such as “health care”) must be hyphenated when they appear before a noun (as in “health-care reform”).

Author: By Nathaniel S. Rakich | Title: The Battle Over “Healthcare” | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

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