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...COUPLING The Supreme Court struck down a ban on gay sex, and Canada okayed gay marriage. Now a Pew survey says opposition to gay marriage has dropped from 65% to 53% since...
...lifting the ban on a company's owning both a newspaper and a TV station in the same market--on a party-line vote in June. But groups as disparate as the National Organization for Women and the National Rifle Association are decrying the move. In a new Pew Research poll, respondents most familiar with the FCC's action opposed it by roughly 10 to 1. Still, it has the support of key G.O.P. leaders, and President Bush has threatened to veto any bill overturning it. Republicans who are breaking ranks on the issue face growing party pressure...
Head down Market Street toward the Delaware River, and tucked back on Third and Church streets is Christ Church, which Franklin attended. Parishioners bought their pews in those days, and Franklin chose Pew 70, a little more than halfway back from the altar. Not wanting to purchase a showy front-row seat, he maintained he could hear fine from his pew. Plus, having a pew in the middle meant he could arrive late and leave early, and his dozing was less visible...
Elaine Weiss sits to her rabbi's left, her back straight, knees primly together, a look of concentration on her face. There is a full house this Sabbath evening at Temple Israel in New Rochelle, N.Y., and Weiss's proud family is in the third pew. In minutes she will be called to the Torah to chant from the sixth chapter of the Book of Numbers, her rite of passage into full Jewish adulthood. One is tempted to say, "Today Elaine Weiss is a woman," except that she has been one a while: she is 62. Nearby sit five other...
...classes. Polls in the weeks after 9/11 found far more women than men reporting that they were depressed, losing sleep and fearful from the news coverage they had watched. "All the polls showed women feeling much more personally vulnerable, much more personally threatened," says Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. "I don't want to play to some stereotypes, but it just comes screaming out of all of the data." One result was that women's support for defense spending--even for expensive, untried concepts like a missile-defense system--shot...