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...Wanting to Join the Family Thank you for Andrew Sullivan's touching essay in favor of gay marriage [Feb. 16]. It is only human for gay couples to seek the dignity and public acceptance of this most basic foundation of our society. Surely the range of personalities within gay marriages cannot be greater than in straight marriages. To continue to deny this most important social structure to our gay friends and family members is petty and cruel. Richard Paul Hinkle Santa Rosa...
...convicted of bribery; the same month, the president and treasurer of the U.S. Taekwondo Union stepped down amid charges of financial mismanagement. All that is bad news in the runup to the 2008 Beijing Games: Koreans are worried that Taekwondo could get bumped out of the Olympics altogether in favor of a Chinese martial art called wushu. "The I.O.C. wants to see Taekwondo clean itself up," says Steven Capener, a former U.S. national Taekwondo team member who worked for the WTF in Seoul. Otherwise, the sport may be cruising for the Olympic equivalent of a roundhouse kick to the head...
Self-satisfied students immediately scorned the inane hippie agitators, who just didn’t get that eating chicken and wearing cow is the natural order. Sure, nobody favors animal abuse, but according to many students, theatrical stunts like the recent “love-in” won’t convince anyone to go cold turkey on meat. It’s certainly disappointing that so many Harvard students, who ostensibly favor justice and fairness, hastily dismissed a group promoting those exact ideals...
Blocked Recall VENEZUELA At least eight people died in violence following the National Electoral Council's rejection of a petition calling for a referendum on Hugo Chávez's presidency. Although the opposition presented 3.1 million signatures in favor of the recall vote, the council declared only 1.8 million valid - 600,000 short of the threshold for triggering a ballot...
...1950s, he was charged by the attorney general of New Hampshire with subversive activities for lecturing on socialism at the University of New Hampshire. The case, Sweezy v. New Hampshire, went to the U.S. Supreme Court and was ruled in favor of Sweezy...