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Question One would introduce representative government to the Fisheries and Wildlife Board and prevent cruelty while affecting only 300 to 400 trappers and a handful of hounders. Sound good? Then vote yes on Question One this Tuesday.
I'd like to respond to the October 17th opinion piece, "Quilts and the Moral Fabric," by Christopher McFadden. This piece represents a throwback to the initial homophobic response to the AIDS epidemic by resorting to moral pedagogy about the homosexual "lifestyle." Not only is McFadden creating statistical generalizations ("AIDS...
They still did it fast. Diane English, the creator of Murphy Brown, was brought in as executive producer, and she scrapped virtually everything but the two stars (who are married to each other) and the basic premise--a divorced couple working together at a New York City newspaper. The show...
After decades of overuse, the images that politicians and journalists alike have employed to connect politics to the populace are now utterly exhausted. After every debate, on every televised hair-pulling contest, you hear them--drawn from a handful of sports, with the occasional gambling metaphor thrown in:
According to the CDC (http://www.cdcnac.org/hivtrend.html), intravenous drug use accounted for 26 percent of reported AIDS cases in 1995, hardly a handful. Heterosexual intercourse (what McFadden would call 'normal' sexual behavior) accounted for 11 percent of new cases, with a growth rate (in 1994) almost three times that of...