Word: handbooks
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...Scouts attorney George Davidson protests that their anti-gay position is "hardly under a rock," but he admits that if you check out SCOUTING.ORG, read the Boy Scout Handbook or go with your son to a troop meeting, you'll hear nothing about gays. He also acknowledges that, perversely, if they were more stridently anti-gay--if they were the Boy Scouts of the K.K.K.--they would have a clearer First Amendment claim that admitting gays would destroy everything they stand for. "Look, if this were a business, the Boy Scouts would simply put a few lines [of anti...
...said that adding any more steps to the process would have required postponing the changes for a year, given the deadline for including them in next year's Handbook of Students...
...results have prompted Senior Tutors to remind students in House newsletters and e-mail messages that the student handbook forbids them from selling the telephone book to any outside source...
...rest of their story comes straight out of a medieval courtship handbook, minus the dowry that my mother's family could not afford. Boy admires girl from afar (in my parents' case, this phase lasts exactly one evening). Boy asks around the village about girl's reputation, intelligence, domestic abilities and willingness to move to America. Satisfied with his findings, boy approaches girl's father and asks for her hand in marriage. The deal is done, girl is notified of the arrangement and, two weeks later, the local kids are married in the town church. The next day, they leave...
...more afraid than ever before," says Barry Glassner, a sociologist and the author of The Culture of Fear. "This book works right off the prevailing ethos that you should be afraid of all the wrong things." A sequel is expected next year. The Worst-Case Scenario Travel Handbook will cover such things as hostage situations and civil unrest. Meanwhile the Survival Handbook is generating other spin-offs, including a calendar that lists such notable milestones as when the first blood transfusion was administered and when Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed...