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...reinvented himself as a sad clown. Crystal's show is a scripted extension of his stand-up material, with lampoons of his Jewish relatives--the cranky uncles, the chain-smoking aunt in Boca Raton who regales a friend on the phone with tales of her daughter's lesbian wedding--and enough one-liners and physical business to keep his fans happy. But he's also paying tribute to his family, especially his jazz-loving father (who produced concerts by such greats as Billie Holiday), and working out some unresolved guilt (over the fight they had about chemistry homework the night...
...funding. The 50 members of the HLS faculty—including HLS Dean Elena Kagan—who signed an amicus brief in support of the lawsuit challenging the Solomon Amendment deserve praise for recognizing the University’s need to affirm its commitment to bisexual, gay, and lesbian students. Their courage to speak out is admirable...
...would not be joining the coalition of 20 other law schools in challenging the government in court. The University’s decision to remain on the sidelines was shameful. As Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz charged this week, “We failed our gay and lesbian students. We failed our principles...
...very easy to write off the people who hold these positions as unchangeably ignorant bigots, and same-sex advocacy organizations often unwittingly do just that. For instance, the Gay and Lesbian Task Force’s Nov. 3 press release emphasized that marriage amendments failed in urban areas, even if they were eventually passed on the strength of rural votes. The Task Force dangerously implies that rural bumpkins could not be dissuaded from their prejudice, and gives them up for lost. Harvard students were wont to take this position after the election in every conceivable forum, such as when Former...
Peter Renn, president of Lambda, the Law School’s student gay rights group, applauded Kagan’s move. “The swiftness of her response reflects the seriousness of the harm that was inflicted upon Harvard’s gay and lesbian students each day that the exception to the nondiscrimination policy was in place...