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...defend its ?Don?t ask, don?t tell? policy. It was implemented in 1994, after a debate between the White House, which wanted to let gays serve openly, and Congress and the military, which did not. The compromise ostensibly protected gays in uniform so long as they didn?t flaunt their sexual orientation. But the number of personnel kicked out of the service for being gay soared from 617 in 1994 to 997 last year. The Pentagon says that 80 percent of those removed in 1997 declared their homosexuality; they "told." Gay-rights groups instead pointed to witch-hunts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gays Say Don?t Rely on Don?t Ask, Don?t Tell | 4/11/1998 | See Source »

...against the liberalism that has dominated Harvard since the '60s is, I have heard many theorize, due to the campus's inability to identify with the progressive left any longer. People who think about the world outside Harvard are weird, popular sentiment goes, and it has become cool to flaunt anti-progressivism. This was nowhere more clear than in the recent Undergraduate Council presidential elections...

Author: By Andrew A. Green, | Title: A Treatise on the Millennium | 2/3/1998 | See Source »

...compatriots continue to languish in their frivolous lives. Certainly snobbery of this sort is a blemish, like flatulence or a stain on a shirt, that plagues many of us from time to time. But as with those unpleasantries, it really is nicer for everyone if we don't flaunt it in public. --Aron R. Fischer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horn Column Shows Dirty Underside of the Ivy League | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...popular ska album--the Slackers have accomplished without even trying. The Slackers do not fit into any commercial mold, but it would be difficut to find anyone who would dislike Redlight, as Victor Ruggiero (who luckily boasts of 200 new songs in his back pocket) and his six mates flaunt their musical talent and imagination to grand effect...

Author: By Sumeet Garg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Throwing Away The Pie, Picking Up the Slack | 10/17/1997 | See Source »

...getting naked in the movies on a regular basis for some 40 years now and mostly acting as if it were no big deal. That's understandable; embarrassment is anti-erotic, and besides, movie stars are prettier than we are. If you've got it, why shouldn't you flaunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: FULLY EXPOSED | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

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