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...breakfast can be an irreplaceable occasion—just ask the 3,500 notables who attended the National Prayer Breakfast last week. The event, which was attended by Congressmen, diplomats, religious, business and military leaders, and President Barack Obama, is held annually at the Washington Hilton in order to help these leaders make cross-field connections that they otherwise might not. Yet the event is not without controversy; The Fellowship Foundation, a “secretive evangelical Christian network,” also known as The Family, sponsors the event. Though high-level politicians on both sides of the aisle...
According to an e-mail sent yesterday by Winthrop House Administrator Joanna G. Miller, Winthropians have recently found themselves squeezed out of their own dining halls by outsiders scrambling for table space. The Masters and House Committee concluded that some inter-house dining restrictions were in order. They are not terribly different from the types of changes Lowell recently implemented...
...David Boies, his former “liberal adversary,” on perhaps the only ideology they share. Both lawyers believe that California’s Proposition 8 is unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment, and both are willing to take their case to the U.S. Supreme Court in order to prove...
...didn’t believe that interracial marriage was “marriage” either. Marriage is a divine institution, wrote the Virginian judge that originally gave the Lovings their sentence, and God “placed [separate races] on separate continents,” in order to demonstrate that He did “not intend for [them] to mix.” In Naim v. Naim (1955), the Virginia Supreme Court similarly argued that there is a clear “natural law” which renders interracial marriage a “corruption...
...more somber tone. From Hitchcock’s indulgently Freudian Psycho, with its infamous shower slashing, to Demme’s Silence of the Lambs, with its copious shots of bludgeoned women, misogyny and cinema make comfortable, even gleeful, bedfellows. On television, procedural crime dramas such as Law and Order repeatedly render graphic, almost gratuitously gruesome, scenes of brutality against women, which take sadism to creative extremes...