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When the BGLTSA applied for membership of the Foundation, several members of student groups protested the application on the grounds that the BGLTSA promotes a deviant lifestyle. While it is deplorable that groups aimed at the value of diversity would choose to criticize the BGLTSA in this way, it is similarly deplorable that the BGLTSA has hijacked Pinkett Smith’s speech to further its own skewed agenda...

Author: By Adam P. Schneider, | Title: A Jaded Perspective | 3/3/2005 | See Source »

...want to have, and to be able to live in decent conditions." Francesco Billari, a professor of demography at Milan's Bocconi University, says large families are the only way to fix Europe's dangerous population slide. In Italy, he says, "even a three-child family is considered completely deviant. That notion has to be avoided; otherwise you can't ever achieve [population] equilibrium." As Europe looks for new ways to convince couples to have more children, it might start by helping those who need no convincing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Europe Anti-Big Family? | 11/21/2004 | See Source »

...billing for last weekend’s rowing event couldn’t have been more inviting: coxswains . . . strokes . . . Head . . . of the Charles. But sadly, the festivities weren’t nearly as deviant as we’d hoped. Gadfly bundled up and ventured out to the banks of the Charles to check out the thieves and lowlifes HUPD had warned us about—you know, the preps, blue-bloods, good ol’ boys and other scum of (high) society. The only thing tighter than the security was the lockjaw...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum, Sarah M. Seltzer, and Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Gadfly; The Week in Buzz | 10/28/2004 | See Source »

President Bush consistently describes the terrorists and insurgents he battles as deviant hijackers of Islam, while they have just as avidly tried to prove they are upholding the teachings of the faith's holy texts. In fact, the insurgency has found considerable support among Islamic religious authorities, especially those who see the U.S. presence in Iraq as occupation rather than liberation. They cite Koranic verses that exhort Muslims to resist, such as, "Slay them ... and drive them out of the places whence they drove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does the Koran Condone Killing? | 9/13/2004 | See Source »

...will continue to chase this deviant group until we eradicate them." CROWN PRINCE ABDULLAH, Saudia Arabia's de facto ruler, following an assault by Saudi forces on a housing complex in Khobar, where Islamic extremists killed Saudi and foreign oil workers and took many hostages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Jun. 7, 2004 | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

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