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Different battles may require different strategies. "The radical right is targeting 35 states in the next two years for initiatives like Colorado's," says Sue Anderson, executive director of Denver's Gay and Lesbian Community Center. Oregon's heinous Measure 9, which declared homosexuality "abnormal, wrong, unnatural and perverse," lost on Election Day, though it was supported by 43% of the electorate -- the same percentage that voted nationwide for Bill Clinton. Antigay activists will try again, says Anderson, "and use Colorado's wording, because it worked...
...trial's first witness, first-year law student Tanya Green, said she spoke for native American who were victimized by Columbus and his followers. Greenaccused him of countless atrocities, including"some of the most heinous forms of slavery...
...mind's eye then turned to the infamous Carol Stuart case, where everyone, including police, reporters, and the public rushed to the judgment that an African-American was guilty of that heinous murder...
...addition to the lawyers advising her on the custody case, Farrow retained attorney Alan Dershowitz, who has acquired the odor of a Lamborghini ambulance chaser for his showboating defenses of the rich and heinous (Claus von Bulow, Leona Helmsley, Mike Tyson). Dershowitz contended that Allen's custody suit was "concocted" to obscure the issue of child molestation. He denied Allen's charge that Farrow, who took no alimony in her divorces from Frank Sinatra and composer-conductor Andre Previn, was demanding $7 million as a payoff to retract the child-abuse accusation. "Baloney," said Dershowitz; Farrow only "wants her family...
Gerstein, a former senior editor of The Crimson, said that before the act was passed, "if a student were wanted for some heinous crime, [campus police] couldn't put up a poster. This should fix that problem...