Word: macedo
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...friend and squash partner Stephen Macedo has certainly raised the level of much of the debate in The Crimson on the Colorado gay rights case (Evans v. Romer). He shows that it is possible to disagree sharply while maintaining courtesy and restraining indignation. Between ourselves, of course, we need no courtesy and feel no indignation, but that fact merely strengthens the point. His argument persuades me against my inclination to say something more here...
...turn to Macedo's rather fancy argument. Let's begin with the wisest thing Macedo said: "Sexual desire can be a problem." Indeed, as poets, philosophers, theologians and scientists agree, it is a tyrannical passion of overwhelming strength. Sexual desire is too strong to be controlled by reason or natural law derived from reason. It can only be controlled by a force of comparable power, and that is shame...
...constitution's Amendment Two. The plaintiffs in this trial seek to prove the amendment--a statute which prevents cities from including homosexuals specifically in civil rights laws--is unconstitutional. Mansfield testified for the state, which seeks to uphold the amendment. In the same trial, Associate Professor of Government Steven Macedo filed a deposition in support of the plaintiffs. The following is a slightly revised form of Macedo's expert witness testimony...
...another incident last September, Antonio Batista de Macedo, who has been organizing Indians and rural workers into cooperatives and trade unions in western Acre, escaped death only when an assassin's gun failed to fire. Last December, Joao Bosco dos Santos Freire, who had been mobilizing rubber tappers in Tarauaca, Acre, was ambushed and killed, allegedly by the son of a landowner, who has not been charged. In January the president of the Tarauaca rural workers union was almost killed when two gunmen invaded his home...
...four people in the New York ( City area became ill after eating improperly cooked crabmeat that had been illegally brought into the country from Ecuador. (Excellent public sanitation should, however, prevent a U.S. outbreak.) "We just can't hold the epidemic within the present limits," says Carlyle Guerra de Macedo, director of the Pan American Health Organization. "Most likely we are going to have cholera in all of Latin America...