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...developers appear satisfied with the agreement. Still, Daniel Crane '72, attorney for Intercontinental Construction, the company in charge of replacing the buildings, emphasizes the cost of meeting the commission's demands...
...developers appear satisfied with the agreement. Still, Daniel Crane '72, attorney for Intercontinental Construction, the company in charge of replacing the buildings, emphasizes the cost of meeting the commission's demands...
...client has taken a hit, an economic hit, in coming forward with this proposal," Crane says, but nevertheless "he has decided it's worth...
...fact, most of the action is local rather than national, but it can wreak havoc, as in Crane's case. After word of his gay "marriage" leaked back to the school in rural Byron Center (pop. 6,500), where Crane has been teaching for three years, outraged parents demanded his ouster. There were no grounds for firing him, especially since he had shaped up the once moribund school band to win a regional award. Instead, the school board proclaimed that "individuals who espouse homosexuality do not constitute proper role models" and promised to "monitor" Crane...
Soon flyers appeared on windshields in church parking lots denouncing the "Sodomite music teacher." Next the parents of Crane's 140 students were mailed packages that bore no return address and contained an antigay video called Gay Rights/ Special Rights, produced by the California-based Traditional Values Coalition; a 100-page antigay treatise titled "Setting the Record Straight" by the Colorado-based Focus on the Family; and a letter exhorting parents to "perceive the grave dangers that your child is facing." National religious-right groups deny involvement. "Their point," says a skeptical Crane, "is to flood people with misinformation...