Word: incestousness
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...Europe defied this taboo, merrily marrying their cousins, with tragic genetic consequences for their offspring. For gay marriage there are no such genetic consequences. The child of a gay couple would either be adopted or the biological product of only one parent. Therefore the fundamental basis for the incest taboo disappears in gay marriage...
Student government at Harvard has long been plagued by electoral incest among the old boys who controlled the Undergraduate Council and the accompanying corruption. But we believe the accountability to which students can now hold council executives will endow those offices with a new credibility. Robert M. Hyman '98-'97, the newly inaugurated president, seems to understand that this new stature will be possible only if the council keeps student interests at heart. The "Students' Bill of Rights" which served as his campaign platform, accurately assesses the needs of undergraduates for the most part, even if it falsely couches...
...Buchanan actually talks some sense when he refuses to consider exceptions in the cases of rape or incest. If the fetus is a human life, then its survival trumps everything else, except the life of the mother. The circumstances under which it was conceived are irrelevant. As Buchanan's campaign manager was quoted a few days ago in The New York Times, "You wouldn't say that you could kill a 1-year-old child because it was conceived in a rape...
...issues--the death penalty, school choice, flag-burning--that supposedly stand for a commitment to values in the face of moral decay in America. These people, Bob Dole among them, don't believe in the sanctity of the human fetus, and they compromise in the cases of rape and incest...
That dilemma is an indication of how sharp a climb Russell, 37, has made since his first film, Spanking the Monkey, two years ago. An alternately droll and disturbing work about mother-son incest, it became a cult hit. His new film, Flirting with Disaster, establishes Russell as a unique comic voice. The movie boasts a name cast that includes Alda, Lily Tomlin and Mary Tyler Moore, as well as such Gen-X faves as Patricia Arquette and Ben Stiller. Oh, and dyed-in-the-wool George Segal fans will have a reason to go to the movies again...