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...nation's two campaigns by openly gay candidates for statewide office has put homosexuality on the ballot. Guy Molinari, borough president of Staten Island -- a suburban, Republican stronghold in otherwise overwhelmingly Democratic New York City -- caused a statewide furor when he said yesterday on television that he didn't think Empire State voters would give the nod to Karen Burstein for attorney general because she was a lesbian. Today, in an interview with TIME Daily, he went further, suggesting that Burstein's lesbianism will have an effect on how she conducts herself as attorney general. Burstein, he claimed, might...
...initial furor died down, a calmer Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth S. Nathans announced at about 11 p.m. that all students could sleep in their waterlogged rooms.CrimsonBowell ChenWaterlogged items sit on the floor in one Hollis room...
This decision by the Fly, while disappointing, hasn't caused a widespread furor in the Harvard community for a simple reason: Most people have long since written off the Fly and its brethren final clubs, considering them nothing more than a stomping ground for up-and-coming elitists...
Crimson reporters who quoted from messages posted to Internet newsgroups caused a furor, and angry epistles were written in reply to the general Harvard newsgroup as well as the one meant for the Computer Science 161 course...
...strong will but a fragile temperament, may really have buckled under the strains that followed her decision to leave her old, privileged life as Charles' rejected wife. No new life is open to her, and any attempts to get to know another man would be met with a furor. Observers of the British Establishment -- a powerful force comprising senior Conservative politicians, civil servants, heads of financial institutions, certain members of the intelligentsia and the aristocracy -- have noted how it is closing ranks behind Charles. In '92 Diana was the wronged woman; now she is portrayed as selfish, a spendthrift...