Word: homo
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...want to belong to the beautiful, exclusive world that the Abercrombie image projects. It's burnished by 3-D employees who have the requisite looks. The two-dimensional advertising version is supplied by photographer Bruce Weber's youth beefcake: frolicking models, draped in nearly as much eroticism (hetero and homo) as they are in sweaters. A&F merchandisers visit a different college campus every weekend to keep a close tab on what kids are wearing...
...Excerpt: "About 40,000 years ago, Europe's Neanderthal population was supplanted by our dear friend Homo sapiens, followed just tens of millennia later by the first European settlements on Crete. Then before you knew it, the Minoans, Mycenaeans, Greeks, Etruscans, Carthaginians, Romans, Byzantines, Franks, Vikings, Holy Romans, and Ottomans had all come and gone, and pretty soon (following countless tragic wars, a few really long boat trips, and a few pinnacles of Western civilization), the year 2000 rolled around, and you decided that it was high time that you went and saw it all for yourself. So you loaded...
...with it--didn't interact constructively--were dumped by natural selection, life came to be filled with teams of genes that played non-zero-sum games well. Larger and larger teams of genes played more and more elaborate games. In other words, more complex life forms evolved, notably including Homo sapiens. Basically, you are a large and well-played non-zero-sum game. Congratulations...
...workplace, calling someone a "homo" is a fireable offense, possibly prosecutable under law. If a "whole school" is indulging in this kind of hate speech, then that whole school should be held accountable for it--everyone! The lesson of discouraging hate speech such as that used by Evan Todd obviously still needs to be learned. ROSLYN REID Bernardsville...
...root of all evil" and "Pain shared is pain divided," he preaches, building to where he demands honest answers to a few questions. "How many of you have seen fights start here at school for something silly?" The hands shoot up. "How many of you have heard the words homo, faggot and dyke used in school?" A sea of hands again, just as when he asks if they have seen students isolated and ridiculed. "This is not how we want to live," he says...