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...just felt the time was right and Delhi was ready," says Gautam Bhan, a city planner and gay activist, "We have come a long way from the ridiculous attitude that there are no gays in India. With this march, we hope to move from saying 'Hey, we exist!' to issues like respect and dignity." A steady gay scene has slowly evolved in most metro cities including Delhi, and mainstream magazines like Time Out list gay socials. "Even smaller cities have a thriving gay scene today," says Monga, "It happens on the quiet, but it's there. Attitudes have definitely changed...
That problem isn't unique to the Mission Tiki. About 400 drive-ins presently operate in the United States, a surprisingly large number in this age of personalized, on-the-go media, but many people don't even know they exist. Today, the industry is just a glimmer of what it was once. Back in the 1950s, at the height of the drive-in era, there were 4,000 theaters showing first-run films - it was a marriage of two great American passions: automobiles and movies. The drive-in appealed to everyone - tired parents, who didn't have to show...
That's a little like saying the purpose of religion isn't to achieve salvation. The idea that corporations exist to please their owners, the shareholders, was supreme during the booming 1990s. It had its roots in scholarly arguments that striving to satisfy multiple constituencies--employees, customers, the community--is a recipe for underperformance...
...denounce a 2006 speech the Illinois Senator gave about the place of religion in public life. He took personal offense at the fact that Obama had referred to him by name in the same breath as Al Sharpton, using the two to illustrate the range of differences that exist within Christianity. But he also expressed outrage at Obama's assertion that individuals can be moral without being religious. "He oughta read the Bible," said Dobson. Obama, he charged, was "deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own worldview...
...course, to make these kinds of deals, people have to know they exist. And as the system of nonprofit housing counselors has been flooded, many agencies have been forced to triage homeowners: less urgent cases go to the back of the line...