Word: friendships
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This kind of subterfuge offends Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona, who, despite his long-standing friendship with Dole, has sponsored a bill that would turn off the soft-money spigot. Unlike any of the growing number of campaign-finance reform measures being floated on Capitol Hill, his bill, which is co-sponsored by Democratic Senator Russell Feingold of Wisconsin, would stop the flow of these funds by preventing national parties from distributing the money to state parties. After months of trying, the two sponsors have finally succeeded in getting the Senate to schedule a debate on the bill next...
Your article on same-sex marriage outlined the arguments for and against it [LAW, June 3]. But isn't it time for churches and synagogues and all the faiths to provide for a "blessing of friendship"? We already bless hounds and foxes, pets, boats and all sorts of things; why not bless two people who are devoted to each other, no matter what their sexual orientation? Isn't it time for the state to acknowledge "life partners" and give them all the legal and social benefits others have? And if any of these life-partner relationships prove to be less...
...this attention to friendship and the feelings of others that many say is Thomas' greatest trait. People love her almost as much as they love to talk about her. Cahn tells stories of Thomas bringing food to sick friends and being the friend on whom he can always count. She was the most consistent letter writer to Cahn when he was in Honduras last summer. She sent him an article she ripped out of an in-flight magazine that was about a woman who worked in Honduras--it had nothing to do with anything else Cahn was doing--and sent...
Being surrounded by the support and friendship of the Harvard community for the last four years has facilitated a growth in self-confidence in my abilities, especially my ability to survive and conquer whatever challenges I will face...
...believe that our experiences here have given each one of us this increased sense of confidence in who and what we are. In reflecting upon what Harvard has given me, it's the support and friendship, from roommates and classmates, and this increased sense of self-confidence and self-reliance that I count among its most important gifts, gifts which I will carry with me always...