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...DIED. JEROME LAWRENCE, 88, co-author of dozens of plays including The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail and Auntie Mame; in Malibu, California. Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, his collaborator for more than 50 years, often used history as a vehicle for commentary on controversial current events. Inherit the Wind focused on the 1925 "Monkey Trial" of John Thomas Scopes, a teacher accused of teaching evolution, but it was really about intolerance in the McCarthy era. The 1955 play "was written because we were indignant, appalled at thought control in the mid-'50s," Lawrence told the Los Angeles Times...
...economics department will already inherit most of the space directly, but the portion of the Littauer Library, which now houses government-related collections, will be up for grabs...
...Shiite leaders and their followers, having been Iraq's disenfranchised majority since the country was first created by the British, remain suspicious of any effort to dilute the power they'll inherit with democracy. And attacks such as those in Kerbala and Baghdad on Tuesday will likely deepen their resolve to pursue the power that their majority would provide at the polls, and to resist anything that might be construed as a delay...
...never stated that I "could hold [my] nose" and vote for Kerry. I will not just give my vote to whoever the Democratic nominee is. My position is that of many Dean supporters, if we are forced to choose between Kerry and Bush. A candidate will never inherit my vote; he must earn it. My vote is priceless; it is too important to give away. CHARLES GRAPSKI Gainesville...
Denying homosexuals the right to marry is also blatantly discriminatory and unfair. Bereft of the legal rights that come with marriage, gay couples sometimes face unfair financial hardship. Unlike married couples, they cannot share insurance policies, file joint tax returns or inherit pensions and Social Security benefits from spouses. When gay couples split up, children are not protected by courtroom proceedings that enable a judge to determine issues of custody. This leaves children vulnerable to needless emotional damage...