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...presidential election is a good sign for gays and lesbians. During the 2000 and 2004 campaigns, the Republican Party used gay and lesbian issues to stir up their base. They used the breakdown of the traditional family as a rallying point around which millions of voters were mobilized. Timothy P. McCarthy ’93, a lecturer on History and Literature and Public Policy and a member of Barack Obama’s National LGBT Leadership Task Force, put it best: “Republicans made Democrats look like the vessel for the homosexual agenda...
Civil rights luminary Robert P. Moses gave his audience a lesson in constitutional history yesterday, tracing the expansion of American civil rights from the founding fathers to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. Speaking at the Institute of Politics, Moses described early interpretations of the U.S. constitution designed to protect the rights of slaveowners, and outlined the way in which reformers from Abraham Lincoln to the activists of the 1960s had attempted to expand the notion of constitutional rights, a process he said was still not finished. “We should embrace the constitutional reach...
...must see, though: it didn’t used to be this way! She was a nice girl! For proof we need only turn to the Times itself, at the start of its original salad days, just before the turn of the century. In an October 1897 article, George P. Rowell explains the paper’s sudden success. Instead of cutting rate, the staff upped the ante with a “strict insistence upon absolutely trustworthy and impartial news reports, and a rigid maintenance of its apt motto, ‘All the news that?...
...successfully in “Thug Life” territory. Nine solo albums deep, Pastor Troy has finally turned his high-pitched battle cry of a voice from a gimmick into an asset. “UH-HUH!” ad-libs aside (and who could imagine P-Troy without those?), these raps are musically and rhythmically sound, delivered right on the beat and with plenty of nuance. The reference points here are DJ Paul and Ice Cube’s delivery on N.W.A.’s “Dopeman;” he is that...
...said. “I believe in the mission of it.” The college’s administration said it supports the week’s activities. Yale is happy to let the students have the intellectual freedom to create events that are meaningful for them, said P. Gila Reinstein of the Yale Office of Public Affairs, “We stand ready to assist the students...