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...summer before he began high school, Joshua Herring ’03 went to a Christian camp in his home-state of Tennessee. While there, he met Lauren Webb, who lived in a neighboring town. Though the two spent the summer together, Herring says they did not stay in close touch when school began. Their high schools were half an hour apart, and they saw each other only at the occasional football game...
...some may sputter, “we don’t want to see straight couples making out in front of the Science Center either.” This assertion is a red herring, and misses the point of today’s action. The kiss-in theatrically draws attention to smaller, daily gestures of heterosexual public intimacy which have become so routine as to be invisible. On the National Day of Silence earlier this month, participants disrupted our everyday routine by refusing to speak, and provoking us to wonder what other silences we live among, unknowingly. The kiss...
...former CEO of American Express, has already argued that stock options should not be regarded as an expense on a company's books. Intel chairman Andy Grove spoke for much of the tech world last September when he told the Conference Board that "stock options are a red herring. The real issue is excessive compensation for executives. [Expensing options] will not be an effective deterrent to abuse." Meanwhile, many investors who can't afford to hold a stock forever value quarterly guidance because it helps prevent nasty profits surprises that can whipsaw a stock's price...
...Burk said the “idea of a private membership is a little bit of a red herring...
...spawning stock. "There is more pessimism now than at any time about returning to healthy cod stocks," says Rice. "We are talking in Canada now about closures that will last a decade." But fishermen know how effective a moratorium can be. A two-year closure of the North Sea herring fishery in the mid-1970s allowed an overfished stock to recover. So when the herring fishery seemed likely to collapse again in the mid-1990s, fishermen knew it would be short-term pain for long-term gain and cooperated with another closure, allowing the fish to recover to their currently...