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Same-sex marriage wasn’t the only gay rights cause up for debate in this election. Sure, voters in eleven states were presented with ballot initiatives that would amend state constitutions to define marriage as between one man and one woman, and all eleven adopted the amendments by large percentages. But the literature promoting the initiatives makes it clear that marriage is not really the issue at stake. The debate focused on whether homosexuality was acceptable, in wedlock or out of it. That paints the new amendments as an even more major defeat, and calls...
...remembered as the class that struck and shut down the university, following the legendary occupation (and police “bust”) in University Hall. At the time, some of us viewed both the occupation and the Vietnam War that provoked it as excessive. And now, eleven members of our class are protesting another excess—the astronomical sums Harvard routinely pays its fund manager employees, and Harvard’s non-stop spiking of student tuition rates...
...Crusaders’ defense, however, stepped up and shut down the Crimson over the next 15:24, forcing eleven turnovers and going on a 20-6 run that put Holy Cross up by fourteen...
...modern relevance: while a few of the 1950s’ sillier notions of sexual behavior have been dispelled—largely because of Kinsey’s seminal study, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male—many continue to regard some natural sexual urges as immoral. Most recently, eleven states voted to ban gay marriage. For those to whom such reactions to homosexuality and bisexuality seem irrational, the film will resonate particularly deeply after the election led eleven states to ban gay marriage...
Jerry Bruckheimer is the Michael Moore of criminal law. Defense lawyers love his CSI shows because they have caused juries to demand DNA analysis in nearly every two-bit 7-Eleven holdup. Prosecutors, meanwhile, feel hampered by the fact that 10 eyewitnesses are not enough to satisfy CSI-watching jurors who crave the supposedly conclusive proof of hair follicles on a knife...