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...yarder of its own.Dorris led the team in tackles with 11 (five unassisted) and added a second-quarter interception tipped by sophomore defensive back Collin Zych, who had nine tackles of his own. Senior cornerback Andrew Berry matched Zych’s defensive output, while freshman defensive back Matthew Hanson had an interception for the second week in a row. Captain Matt Curtis had a sack for a seven-yard loss and just two plays later, defensive end Peter Ajayi posted another for a seven-yard loss.“I think first...
...Matthew Shepard Act would extend the two laws to cover all crimes committed because of bias, not just those that occur in public arenas like schools and restaurants. It would also extend the 1968 law to cover sexual orientation as well as gender and disability...
...years ago this past weekend, Matthew Shepard died. He was 21 but looked maybe 17, and everyone who knew him called him Matt, never the more formal Matthew. He was mostly still a kid, but he became an international symbol after two men he met in a bar pretended to be gay, lured him into a truck, savagely beat him and left him to die tied to a fence on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyo. He held on for five days after being found but never recovered consciousness...
Which is why it's difficult for me to say that I think she's wrong about what could become her son's most important legacy: a hate-crimes bill before Congress called the Matthew Shepard Act. The bill would expand, far too aggressively, the two existing federal hate-crimes laws. One is from 1968; it allows the Federal Government to prosecute crimes committed on the basis of race, religion and national origin when the victim is engaged in public activities like going to school or eating at a restaurant or attending a concert. The other is from...
Football, sanity, and sex are the three biggest players on the field in Matthew Quick’s “The Silver Linings Playbook.” Quick tells his tale from the perspective of Pat Peoples, a 34-year-old man who has just been released from a mental institution—or “the bad place,” as he calls it. Written in the style of an extended, journal-like letter to his ex-wife, Pat documents his obsession with her, his slow recovery from mental illness, and the importance of the Philadelphia...