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Schauss, who is now president of the organization, pitched her idea to others in her Swedish B class and found two willing accomplices--Marcelline M. Block '01, who is also a Crimson editor, and Elizabeth A. Chiappa '01. The three sophomores had taken Swedish A together last year and were frequent participants at the Wednesday night Swedish table in Leverett House...
...column. Well, maybe not. It is easy enough to mock the idea of hate crimes ("So where are the love crimes?"). Hate-crime legislation, critics say, is codified redundancy, unnecessary complication for real-world courtrooms already saddled with the heavy demands of proof. As Judge Stang says, you don't want to send hate off to the forensic lab to prove what kind it is. Unlike intent, he says, motive isn't a separate element of a crime. It simply provides narrative to sway a jury or give plot to a novel...
...left 90210 in 1994, reportedly not on the best of terms with her colleagues, including executive producer Aaron Spelling, who on Charmed is once again her boss. Both Doherty and Spelling claim that any animosity on either side was greatly exaggerated. Spelling approached her earlier this year with the idea of returning to 90210, which in its ninth season is already about two cycles past its prime. Doherty declined, although she says she might make a special appearance for a season finale...
Last week, as Americans embraced the oldest and easiest part of the gay agenda--the feel-good idea that we can "outlaw" hate toward people just because they are gay--voters in one corner of the country struggled with the most difficult and radical part of that agenda: the idea that same-sex relationships should not be morally, religiously or legally any different from opposite-sex ones. Marriage is lush with symbolism--pastors and vows, rings and rice--it's the civil heart through which the blood of state and religion both flow. "Going for marriage is like shooting...
...campaign-finance system that supports them. Neumann, elected to Congress in 1994 as a number-crunching budget cutter, has aimed his recent TV spots at Feingold's vote against a ban on partial-birth abortions and at his opposition to a constitutional amendment outlawing flag burning. The idea is to whip social conservatives into a holy frenzy and get them to the polls, with the expectation that Monica-weary Democrats will stay home. "It's going to be won or lost on turnout," Neumann says. "And I've got to believe we're in pretty good shape there...