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Romney has simultaneously launched another last-ditch effort to deny homosexuals the rights of other citizens, urging legislators to begin the lengthy process of amending the Massachusetts constitution. For this proud defender of an unfairly exclusive institution, nothing less will suffice than a state constitutional amendment that explicitly bars gays from the institution of marriage. It seems unlikely that this backwards provision will get through the legislative process any time soon, but it is imperative that Massachusetts’ lawmakers take action now to make the SJC’s ruling a reality. Knocking down the barriers to free citizenship...
...admit the girls died in his house. Huntley's ex-girlfriend, Maxine Carr, denied charges of assisting an offender and conspiracy. The two girls disappeared last August, while walking in the village of Soham, in eastern England. The discovery of their bodies 13 days later in a remote woodland ditch provoked a national outpouring of sympathy and grief...
...they pull up in $10,000 campers or $300,000 McMansions on wheels, the nation's mobile nomads are using 802.11b, the wireless Web standard, to work and play, to bank, to check their stock portfolios or just to stay in touch with loved ones from the road. Ditch those old stereotypes about RV parks, says Eric Stumberg, co-founder of the start-up TengoInternet, based in Austin, Texas, which supplies wireless connections 30 times the speed of dial-up to RV denizens from Florida to Arizona. "These are the real road warriors, living in a coach, carrying cell...
...debated. TheKnot.com the mother-in-law of all wedding sites with more than 2 million visitors a month, includes articles like "Calling It Off: Real Brides, Real Reasons," amid more registry-friendly fare. Message boards on Indiebride.com go by titles like "Runaway Brides" and "Okay, I'm Ready to Ditch." The site's founder, Lori Leibovich, says the subject is among its most popular. "In this day and age, when people are older and often live together beforehand, it's amazing to me how many people get engaged--and then start questioning the decision," Leibovich says...
...himself in his Christian faith, encouraging whites and blacks to attend each other's church services. James too has long forgiven Farley and Sims, but he says he found real meaning in Virgil's death one night years later, in the '60s, when his car got stuck in a ditch on the same dark Docena-Sandusky Road. Two young white men pulled up and approached him, "and I thought, Oh, no, it's all gonna happen again." But the men helped him pull his car out. "I asked them if I owed 'em anything," James says. "They said, 'Just help...