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...needs, but it has been used as far as it will go,” the Harvard Alumni Bulletin reported in April 1919. “Records at the cemetery show that interments there have never been frequent; three was the greatest number in a year, and fifteen years once elapsed without...
...line with the Greens' orientation towards openness and equality." What better time to demonstrate that commitment, he says, than just before the June 10-13 elections for the European Parliament? Same-sex legal partnerships - though not full-fledged marriages - were first approved in Europe in the Nordic countries. Fifteen years ago Denmark recognized "registered partnerships," which gave gay and lesbian couples rights equivalent to married couples in all matters but the right to adopt, or to receive artificial insemination. The famously tolerant Dutch surpassed the Scandinavians in April 2001 by jettisoning all distinctions between gay partnerships and traditional marriages...
...Politicians reward their biggest contributors, and the Bushes are no exceptions. Fifteen of the 19 September 11th hijackers were Saudis; but when Prince Bandar, the Saudi ambassador who is close to the First Family, dined with the President in the White House two days after the attacks, the mood was collegial, not angry. In the Iraqi ramp-up and occupation, the Administration has rewarded its Saudi and Texas supporters with billions in rebuilding contracts. As Blaine Ober, president of an armored vehicle company, tells Moore: the Iraqi adventure is ?good for business, bad for the people...
...wanted a real job. As a freelance writer it took me about three months to write a piece, and if I sold it to The New Yorker I might get fifteen grand, if I was published in a literary magazine I would be lucky to get a couple of free copies. I figured I’d get a stable job with a paycheck that would free me up to write whatever I wanted...
...this is nothing new. We all know about our mundane campus life. We complain about it unremittingly. We write articles in Fifteen Minutes longing for the Yale vibe and throw Harvard State University parties hoping to make the College into, well, a college. What is surprising, however, is that despite our incessant complaints, many among us exhibit a lack of willingness to effect positive change and an unabashed willingness to derail those...