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...Weeks, talking about how a lot of straight couples are breaking up and having a hard time keeping it together in a de-traditionalizing world. At the same time, I think a lot of gay and lesbian couples are rediscovering family. Particularly among lesbian couples, there is a new fervor around adoption and kids (gay men too, but on a smaller scale). There's a new kind of desirability for children and for constructing a somewhat traditional mode of family...
...most part, sought to do what they saw as right, just as we do now. It underscores that one thing is unquestionably right with Harvard—its students. Year in and year out, our College attracts students who bring new life to the College, reinvigorating its intellectual fervor and debate, its social diversity, its eclectic personality and, yes, even its traditions...
Virginia, which claims second place in executions, is showing signs that it too may be rethinking its death-penalty fervor. Two weeks ago, Republican Governor James Gilmore signed a bill giving inmates access to DNA testing and marginally easing the state's rigid rules of evidence. The U.S. Supreme Court has nudged the state too, overturning three of Virginia's death sentences in the past three years. Next fall the court could make history when it uses a North Carolina case to reconsider whether executing the mentally retarded is cruel and unusual punishment...
...predicted global chaos. "After Y2K," says Potok, "there were a lot of angry letters in the extremist publications saying, 'You've made fools of us--we have a basement full of supplies and nothing to use them for.'" But if the militias are fading, some of their paranoid fervor lives on. Take John Trochmann, who still runs the Militia of Montana. "If they kill McVeigh, they'll be destroying more evidence that points to the government," he says. But fewer Americans are listening...
...McNally's courtroom have little to fear. They are first offenders, convicted of possessing drugs for personal use--not of dealing--and, as such, benefit from a groundbreaking Arizona statute barring their imprisonment. McNally's sentences are about rehabilitation, even repentance. Part shrink, part scold, McNally rules with revivalist fervor. "You're going to get a lot out of this journey," she tells a woman sentenced to counseling and urine testing. The audience is invited to clap--and they do so, loudly--as she praises a man who has stayed clean for six weeks and hands him free tickets...