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...seriously to believe that Pappin was pretty neutral about this whole homosexual vs. heterosexual thing until he took a few Moral Reasoning classes or sat through a few lectures in an introductory class to philosophy? It would take a lot to convince me that his words are anything but long-held personal views cushioned with what he has picked up from Harvard...
...thinks every candidate would be wise to crib a few notes from the Bush 2000 campaign. "Last time, the guy who most often surprised me, especially by his courage in going into the face of what his audience believed, was Bush. He was willing to challenge people's long-held assumptions on immigration and the poor. He just wasn't afraid...
...Soriano’s stock hasn’t been helped by some long-held prejudices about Ivy League athletes. One easily accessible scouting report, compiled by the people at Pro Football Weekly for ESPN.com, lists his Harvard background—Soriano is a biology concentrator and has plans to one day attend medical school—as a weakness...
...declarations of Sheik Ahmed Yassin, Hamas' spiritual leader, who last month denounced the Bush Administration's threats to disarm Iraq by force as "a new crusade against the Muslim nation." Yassin's call for Muslims worldwide to "strike Western interests ... everywhere" marked a sharp departure from his movement's long-held belief that attacks on Americans would undercut Palestinian hopes of keeping U.S. pressure on Israel. With Yassin's outburst, says a U.S. official, Hamas followers "have been freed up to do more than Israelis. And they're here." FBI agents suspect that there are Hamas sympathizers among...
...Buffett, 72, is on a comeback. By avoiding fads and sticking to what he knows, the Nebraska native is finding ways to make money in a bear market that has ravaged many fortunes. His long-held stake in the Washington Post Co. has sparkled during the market downturn, and over the 30 years that Buffett has owned the stock he has turned an $11 million investment into $1.2 billion. More recently, he has been snapping up steady cash-producing private businesses like kitchen retailer The Pampered Chef...