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...Rainbow Curriculum was a grotesquely inept and ill-conceived program, or so many education experts have said. The school boards, however, did not object on the basis of educational theory, for few board members have even an iota of expertise in this area. Their beef with the program, and hence with Fernandez, stemmed from their visceral moral objections to homosexuality...
...problems with having Powell awarded an honorary degree. "I think it recognizes a lifetime of achievement. I don't think we have to agree with every position taken. I'm sure that if you go through past degree recipients you could find people have taken positions that we would object to," he said...
Some on the left might object that Lynn Johnston isn't qualified to speak on this issue. After all, she isn't gay; she's married and the mother of two children. What would she know about being...
...integration of the races and the promotion of racial harmony because it has a diverse student body living in close quarters. Its capacity for racial integration rests largely on the achievement of Lowell's vision of what the social life of the Houses could bring about. "One object of the University is to counteract rather than copy the defects of the day," he said. "It is in the College that the character ought to be shaped, aspirations formed, citizens trained, and scholarship implanted." He added: "In relations of undergraduates to one another, might there not be more points of intellectual...
...Klingon dialogue for Star Trek III. He took his job more seriously than anyone expected, creating a substantial vocabulary and some kinky and sophisticated grammatical rules that are linguistically solid, albeit "kind of unnatural from a human point of view." (Klingon sentences, for instance, follow a bizarre object-verb-subject syntax.) In 1985 Okrand published the vocabulary and rules in The Klingon Dictionary, which now has 250,000 copies in print and is still going strong. Last fall he came out with an audiotape, Conversational Klingon (50,000 copies). On it, Okrand and Michael Dorn, who plays Klingon Lieutenant Worf...