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...Parliament's upper house and President Thabo Mbeki, South Africa will become the first African nation to grant the same legal status to all marriages regardless of partners' sexual orientation. It was proposed after the Constitutional Court ruled last year that laws prohibiting gay marriage violated a guarantee of equal rights in the constitution...
...Luce is strongest on economics, but he's also a savvy observer of the social and political environments that alternately nurture and throttle India's growth. With equal aplomb, he tackles topics such as the surging political power of India's lower castes, the rise and (apparent) decline of Hindu nationalism and the decline and (apparent) resurgence of the Gandhi-Nehru dynasty. Luce also takes a stab at explaining the big regional differences in economic development within India. For example, a senior bureaucrat in the southern state of Tamil Nadu candidly tells Luce that about 30% of public funds meant...
...fact that Harvard allowed Gen. Abizaid to have the podium to himself. “If Harvard is going to give him a forum as prominent as this to pontificate on the war, I would suggest that, in the spirit of our education, and democracy, it give opposing viewpoints equal prominence,” Usmani said. The protest will be lively, according to organizers. “We will certainly be there making noise and hopefully making our distaste of General Abizaid and the Iraq war in general known,” Joshua Kortiz, a member of Socialist Alternative...
...fare, sleep on the floor of some dining hall, and eat half-cooked hot dogs at an alcohol-free tailgate, they can actually have fun at a football game in their hometown and then go home for Thanksgiving after classes end on Friday. Note that fun does not equal getting obnoxiously drunk, but rather not being forced to deal with beverage authorization teams, long lines, and the Boston Police Department (BPD). The calculus involved is not complicated, and, while I certainly plan on going to The Game on Saturday, if I went to Yale I would probably make the same...
...Adopt-A-Minefield” campaign, which funds the removal of landmines around the world. THE WAR AT HOMERees does not limit his accusations of insincerity to the political sphere. He says that pop culture’s criticism of the Bush Administration is often equally hypocritical. He has harsh words for comedians who court an audience on both sides of a debate by saying, as he puts it, “we just offend everybody, we’re equal opportunity offenders.”South Park, a show that frequently skewers anti-war Hollywood activists along with...