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...event had sold out on the first day, so I arrived 45 minutes early. The courtroom was completely empty save for two pleasant-looking men in suits. We chatted for a moment and I learned that they were Peter LaBarbera, the publisher of an anti-gay journal, and Bob Knight of the Family Research Council, one of the nation's largest religious right organizations. My heart began to pound as I quietly removed the "Queer Harvard" button from my backpack, hoping not to tip my hand for a few moments...
Ironically, the Right sees things exactly the same way. Knight asked me what club on campus I worked for. When I told him BGLSTA, he frowned and said, "I knew that. Your manner seemed too serious." Though he grew more hostile, I could not ignore how pleasant he was at the beginning, when he was just a person...
...will continue to fight passionately for what I believe in and I will continue to attack the beliefs I find abhorrent, but I will not attack the people who hold them. If LaBarbera, Knight and their friends can do the same, maybe someday we can peacefully leave the battlefield without destroying each other...
There's no doubt that Wall Street is ratcheting pressure on editors. Maxwell E.P. King, editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, also stepped down last week after his own bruising battles with bottom-liners at the Knight-Ridder chain. In Los Angeles, editor Parks says he's not worried. "Look, the walls are not going to come tumbling down," he says. "This is not Jericho. I am absolutely confident of our ability to work out this new partnership with the business side--and not only our ability, but of our need to do it." The crunch, after...
...final portion of Harrington's book arose from candid conversation between doctors and divinity professors, neurologists and national health program directors, causes the reader to cling to every word of the last 40 pages. Some dialogue is amusing--Professor Spiro of Yale speaks of "feeling like a knight, very macho" when treating acute pain--and other comments are slightly disturbing: Professor Fields of California asserts that "part of what we do as physicians is to scare people" to add to placebo effectiveness. Anne Harrington herself contributes to the discussion of the placebo and each discipline's interpretation of its origin...