Word: hawaiian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crown jewel of the Contract with America"--tax cuts--before Congress recesses in October. Indeed, the Congress has given up on doing much of anything before the election, except for one piece of business--the Defense of Marriage bill, a pre-emptive strike at the possibility that a Hawaiian court may recognize unions between homosexuals. It's not immediately apparent why this bill should jump the queue ahead of the potential bankruptcy of Medicare and bills to keep the government running. The Hawaiian courts will not rule until the end of the year, and it will be 1997 before same...
...Francisco hotel around 6:30 a.m. on May 25, his life appeared to be turning around. The 28-year-old singer-songwriter for the ska/hip-hop/punk-rock trio Sublime had a reputation for wildness and womanizing, but he was trying to change. He had been married the week before in a Hawaiian-theme ceremony in Las Vegas, and now he was doing what he loved, touring the country with his band, which had just finished recording an album that, to everyone who heard it, sounded like a smash. In fact, Nowell felt so good that May morning, he decided to take...
...than a pop icon--he's a treasure trove of subjects for scholarly research. Beginning Aug. 3, two dozen academics will present papers at the latest international conference on the King, at the University of Mississippi at Oxford. Vernon Chadwick, the conference director, who has made connections between Elvis' Hawaiian movies and Herman Melville's Polynesian novels, declares, "Within Elvis there is a multiplicity of topics of study." Among the conference's papers...
Compared with, say, the federal deficit or welfare, the issue of same-sex marriage is not exactly a crisis in the Republic. But it has become a hot campaign issue because of a 1993 Hawaiian supreme court ruling that denying marriage licenses to gay couples may violate the equal-protection clause in the state constitution. Sending the case back to the trial court, the supreme court directed the government to show that it has a "compelling" state interest in maintaining the ban--a test it is unlikely to meet. Although the case is now on appeal in a state court...
...this campaign season, the Hawaiian case has stirred fury in statehouses across the country. Thirty-five states have considered legislation against same-sex marriage, with 11 states enacting such bans and 17 refusing to do so. Last week the issue engaged the campaign's two protagonists. President Clinton announced that if Congress passed the Defense of Marriage Act to deny federal recognition to same-sex marriages, co-sponsored by Bob Dole, Clinton would say "I do" and sign it. Presumably the move would show that he is not beholden to the homosexual community. The President chose to make the point...