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...airline "good success in terms of driving revenues," he adds. "And that will continue." Commercial Closet Association, a New York City-based group that counsels firms on smarter representation of gays in advertising, logged 436 gay-themed ads in global gay and mainstream media last year - around a fifth of which appeared in Europe - versus around 350 in 2003. "What might seem a very brave step to make isn't that brave, really," says Jon Howard, strategy director of London ad agency Quiet Storm. He suggests gays are on average "more affluent, more interested in style and brands, and travel...
Opponents of it are on a judicial winning streak. Washington State's Supreme Court last week upheld a law prohibiting same-sex marriage--the fifth state this month to rule in favor of a ban. (See map, below.) "Marriage is safe for another day," says Mathew Staver, chairman of the conservative group Liberty Counsel. But advocates of gay marriage remain hopeful. Judicial decisions on legal challenges in four states are expected shortly. New Jersey's Supreme Court may rule as soon as this week. "We have to put this in a much bigger context," says Joe Solmonese, president of Human...
Gates learned that he had a fifth-great-grandfather who served in the Revolutionary War during the filming of “African American Lives,” a series he hosted on PBS this past spring which traced the genealogies of prominent African Americans...
...idea that my fifth-great-grandfather [served in the Revolutionary War],” he said. “If that’s true for me that has to be true for a lot of black people around the country...
...hope that other nations will recognize that Iran, Hizballah's sponsor, is sufficiently dangerous to regional peace that defanging its proxy becomes something that every sensible party would want to do. "Iran," says Peres, "is trying to make a mockery of world institutions." That thought leads to the fifth key to peace--and perhaps the hardest of all to pin down...