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...rationale for supporting gay rights is simple. First, sexual orientation is a fundamental characteristic of one's identity, just as race, gender or upbringing. Second, those aspects of our identities which we cannot control, cause no harm and are not relevant to doing a given job ought not be the basis of discrimination. Third, as a society we should pass those laws that turn what ought to be into reality, and live our lives accordingly...
...overseers also received a letter from the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan asking them not to question a key witness about "any matters involving the Democratic National Committee [or] the Clinton/Gore Election Committee...because it could harm the active, ongoing criminal investigation." Investigators say the letter shows that the New York grand jury has targeted an alleged scheme in which Democrats would direct campaign contributions to Carey in return for contributions to state Democratic parties out of Teamster union funds...
...cost him $250,000 and a possible 20 years in prison after he was found guilty on four counts of extortion Tuesday. ?What I am offering is simple,? Pletcher, 22, wrote Microsoft boss Bill Gates. ?Your life for $5 million.? His letters went on to threaten harm to Gates, his wife, his daughter and colleague Steve Ballmer. In the chat room tradition, Pletcher posed as a 34-year-old ex-Army Ranger with a 100 percent kill rate...
...prevail--they could conceivably persuade a jury that Clinton created an environment in which women were rewarded for kissing and not telling, and that Jones suffered for not playing along. And they might have to make such an argument because the claim that Jones suffered psychological and economic harm from her encounter with Clinton remains the weakest part of her case...
...bees prevent other females from maturing sexually, ensuring that the queen's genes remain dominant. Among fish, scent markers released by females cause male sperm counts to quintuple overnight. When injured by a predator, some amphibians emit a compound that warns others of their species to keep out of harm...