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Your onslaught of letters was quite invasive. If I wanted to read a personal ad, I would have picked up the Phoenix or BayWindows. If I wanted see descriptions of gay men like yours, I would have picked up the Peninsula. I did not want to check my mail and find your letter. If I was straight, I don't think it would have bothered me as much. But I'm gay, and I felt especially targeted. And because I don't really agree with your views and have no plans to seek a relationship with you, I felt like...
...Eastto slip through our fingers," Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said. "No one will forgive us if children learn one day that it was possible to end the wars . . . and we ran away from a decision." Israel, he noted, made a similar territorial concession when it returned the entire Sinai peninsula to Egypt as part of the 1979 peace treaty. But Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin still faces widespread opposition among Israelis afraid of surrendering the Golan, where Syrian gunners used to attack northern Israeli settlements before Israel captured it in the 1967 Mideast war. "It's clear thatin these meetingshe...
...Hong Kim, 45, assistant editor, Political Desk II, The Dong-A Ilbo, Seoul, Korea. He will focus on the Korean Peninsula's reunification process, the diplomatic issues surrounding improved U.S. North Korea relations; and the new international order and regional stability in the Asia-Pacific region, particularly after reunification...
Apparently Truth and Courage (Peninsula-style) mean calling a faggot a faggot. How very pleasant. How very thoughtful. How very enlightening. How very dignified. Lest one suppose that these instances of "affirming dignity" are the work of a rogue among the Peninsula staff, the masthead assures us that "The Council [the three highest ranking members of Peninsula] accepts responsibility for all unsigned pieces." The two wisecracks quoted above are both unsigned...
...Peninsula truly believes in truth in advertising, maybe it should shed its transparent intellecual veneer and instead continue only to wallow in unthinking epithets, giving all readers a taste of Peninsula's real feelings about the personal dignity of homosexuals. Peninsula cannot have both highminded rhetoric and gutter slurs. On the occasion of its fifth aniversary, Penininsula's writers have betrayed the emptiness of their pretensions to inteilectual discussion, making even more transparent the blatant, bombastic bigotry that we've come to expect from them...