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...Botts is a complete player,” Chu said. “She’s great on defense, on offense, in the neutral zone—there isn’t a lot she can’t do. She is one of the most poised with the puck. There can be several players all over her and she is always able to move and get away from them or to make the right pass...
...course, Pappin’s argument is little more than an attempt to deflect blame from his own views. Are we 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...
...same time the U.S. was moving into the Persian Gulf militarily and supplying Afghan rebels, all based on a faulty CIA oil assessment, it was also secretly supporting Saddam Hussein. The Reagan Administration remained neutral after Iraq's invasion of Iran in September 1980, but as the war progressed and it appeared that Iran might emerge victorious, the U.S. secretly backed Iraq, according to declassified government documents. That began in 1982, when the State Department removed Iraq from its list of countries supporting terrorism. According to a General Accounting Office report, this "made Iraq eligible to purchase aircraft, helicopters...
Avoiding a hometown wedding can make the event less about other people--Mom's business partners, Dad's second cousin--and more about the bride and groom. Choosing neutral territory can also mitigate family conflicts. Marta Lowe, 32, who lives in Maryland, got married on a farm in Vermont rather than in her hometown, Olympia, Wash., where she feared her estranged divorced parents would spoil the atmosphere. "If I got married where I grew up, people would have come just to glare at each other," Lowe says. With rehearsal dinner and postwedding brunch the new norm, brides and grooms today...
Young people, however, having grown up with the racially inclusive ethos of hip-hop and who are comfortable meeting potential mates via the racially neutral Internet, are even more color-blind than their elders when it comes to matters of the heart. According to a recent nationwide poll in USA Today, 60% of U.S. teens have dated outside their race. Ali Zeidan, 22, a white Indiana native and computer major at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, and Melody Twilley, 19, a black prelaw student, are among them. The couple became engaged this past Valentine's Day after meeting...