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...imports to the U.S. and most commercial activities. Gaddafi has pledged to end his WMD program. MEANWHILE IN BRITAIN ... No, Dahling The English National Opera has banned its employees from using the traditional showbiz greeting "darling" because it might constitute sexual harassment. New guidelines on workplace protocol also outlaw suggestive remarks or lewd conduct. But old-school thespians need not despair: so far, at least,"luvvie" and "sweetie" have escaped censure...
...that the nation’s politicians have hopped onto the banning-obscenity bandwagon (will anyone think of the children!), Congress will outlaw redneck jokes from television and radio because they “mess with...
JOHN KERRY Kerry opposes gay marriage but supports civil unions. He's against a federal amendment that would outlaw gay marriage but would support amending the Massachusetts constitution to do so, as long as it grants civil unions to gay couples and bestows on them the same legal benefits that straight couples receive under state...
...their families. At first blush, you wouldn't think the statute has anything to do with the war over gay marriage. But consider this: that law makes it a federal crime to threaten the husband of Elizabeth Cheney, one of the Vice President's daughters. But it does not outlaw threats against the lesbian partner of Mary Cheney, his younger daughter. Legally speaking, Mary's partner is not a member of the Vice President's family but, rather, a total stranger...
...film's tragic Shakespearean ending. ("Smacks of overreach," complained the Chicago Tribune.) But Kingsley puts the film in league with ancient dramatic traditions that used less plausible, more hyperbolic plotlines to pound home a point. "The Greeks embraced tragic drama," he says. "We are a society dedicated to the outlawing of tragedy, and we outlaw it at our peril." (He's exaggerating a bit - this year's other Oscar contenders include fine modern tragedies like Clint Eastwood's melancholy Mystic River.) Movies like House spring from "the ancient tradition of telling heartbreakingly sad stories, but hugging each other afterward...