Word: inferior
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...have tipped the Leopards off to the Crimson’s offensive scheme for the evening: getting the ball into Peljto—who attempted one more shot in the opening frame than Lafayette’s entire squad—and letting her go to work against an inferior defensive unit. Had Harvard not surrendered a 15-4 run to close the half, Peljto’s 16 points would not just have led all scorers...
...this year, Sony's PlayStation 2 had captured 74% of the market, leaving Nintendo's GameCube to split the scraps with console newcomer Microsoft and its Xbox at 13% apiece. The next generation of machines?which could allow Nintendo to erase perceptions that the two-year-old GameCube is inferior to the PlayStation and Xbox?is at least a year away. Rather than articulate a radical plan for the company to regain its competitiveness now, Iwata's most notable action since taking the helm has been a series of price cuts, slashing the cost of GameCube consoles by as much...
...legal rights, while essential for gay couples, are not enough to elevate them from their current second-class status. Civil unions provide equal rights but none of the emotional and often religious support of the institution of marriage. Denying gay couples the right to marry casts them as morally inferior to straight couples, and the state has no business making this hateful distinction. Supposed separate but equal institutions for gay and straight couples are inherently unequal. We should know better than to repeat the mistakes of an often-bigoted past...
...truly make history. Hopefully, when people see that this does not “destroy society as we know it” (as one conservative commentator has predicted), they will abandon what the Goodridge court called the “destructive stereotype that same-sex relationships are…inferior to opposite-sex relationships and are not worthy of respect...
...choose to make their lives together cannot be restricted to those couples who differ in gender. As the SJC correctly identified, prohibiting gays and lesbians from marrying those they love repeats one of the ugliest and most persistent perversions of American civil society—it creates a second, inferior class of residents not entitled to the full protections and privileges of citizenship. It took too many years for America to realize that it was wrong to prevent women from voting or African-Americans from living as free human beings; bans on gay marriage, though the right they...