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...Watching the results come in at the historic Eastland Park Hotel in downtown Portland, Scott Fish of the Stand for Marriage Maine campaign told TIME that the other side had acted with too much haste and too little respect for voters' wishes. "What's the hurry [for gay marriage]?" asked Fish, whose group began seeking a so-called people's veto almost immediately after Maine's Democratic (and Catholic) governor, John Baldacci, signed the gay-marriage bill in May. (See a visual history of gay rights in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gay-Marriage Activists Look Ahead After Maine Defeat | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

...heavily guarded, nondescript warehouse in St. Gabriel, a team of 150 medical examiners, coroners, forensic pathologists, dentists, radiologists and funeral directors is running an around-the-clock operation to prepare bodies for identification. They are men of few words, like Terry Edwards, 47, a veteran funeral director from Eastland, Texas. Although he has volunteered for 11 disasters' aftermaths, including cleaning up the Columbia shuttle crash, he says New Orleans is the worst. In teams of two, Edwards and his comrades open each body bag, inventory the contents, decontaminate for chemical waste, then assess the victim for gunshot wounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life Among the Ruins | 9/12/2005 | See Source »

...cause. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case--and some who support his overall goal but reject his methods think that is just as well. "A chief justice should understand that the rule of law requires obedience even to orders a government official disagrees with," argues Terry Eastland, a conservative Christian intellectual and publisher of the Weekly Standard. "The interesting question is why Moore disobeyed the order when resignation was a compelling alternative. After all, resignation would have served the demands of conscience and the rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thou Shalt Be Removed | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

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