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...Columbia University study of former homosexuals and lesbians has shown that same-sex attractions can be overcome. Ex-gay organizations such as National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality, Regeneration Books, Evergreen, International Healing Foundation, One by One and Exodus have also helped demonstrate that homosexuality is neither genetic nor irreversible...
Some have also suggested that more individual factors played roles in the exodus...
Department chair and Coolidge Professor David Blackbourn says he blames the exodus on a hiring spurt of junior faculty over the past few years, who customarily take sabbaticals after their third year at Harvard. But if the department knew that its new hires would all go on sabbatical in three years, it should have planned accordingly by spreading out the hires and hiring more junior faculty to pick up the slack next year. Although there’s little time left to recruit for next year, it should do what it can to fill out its roster. To alleviate...
This year the nation's prisons will release more than 630,000 people--the largest prison exodus in history. That's four times as many as were released in 1980, before crack, before zero tolerance, before truth-in-sentencing policies and before 1.9 million people filled U.S. prisons and jails, the current record. Since 1980, the number of prisoners returning to society has steadily climbed. It's simple physics: the more people you lock up, the more you must one day let out. For 40% of those now in state prisons, that day arrives in the next 12 months...
...executives in parachuting out early and rich - recused himself and his chief of staff from the probe, just as designated attack Democrat Henry Waxman was dashing off a letter reminding Ashcroft that he'd received $25,000 from Enronites for a Senate re-election campaign. The exodus may not stop there; Bush SEC chairman Harvey Pitt once did some work for Arthur Andersen, the blind (and document-shredding) accounting watchdog in the drama, and could be next to eagerly recuse himself from ever having to give a press conference on his agency's investigation, either...