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Stephen E. Sachs '02 raises a number of poignant questions surrounding what he terms "the morality debate" concerning the moral nature of homosexuality. This central question is, as he phrases it: "...what is it about identity, especially one connected with a set of actions instead of anatomy or skin color, that shields it from moral scrutiny?" Mr. Sachs derives this question by analogy, citing rapists and kleptomaniacs as examples of persons who "also have strong desires for immoral acts"; to read this makes me wonder whether he has not already answered this question for himself...
...recognize Fong as a well-intentioned individual who made legitimate observations--however poorly constructed and immature his presentation--and that his apparent hypocritical sanctimony is inconsequential. That done, let us examine his closing remarks in "The Invasian" and do the piece justice by allowing his poignant last words to resonate in our hearts: "The more the Asians stick to themselves, the more alienated we feel from their community, and the more alienated they feel from our community... Can't we all just get along...
...digital format, consists entirely of "episodes" from The Contenders, complete with tacky titling and an unctuous, booming narrator. The minor miracle of Minahan's work is that it somehow encourages us to form a sympathetic bond with his main character, Dawn, whose ferocity is touched with a poignant longing for a kinder, gentler life by the splendid Brooke Smith. She is pregnant. She is back in the hometown she left in disgrace some years before. One of the people she is supposed to kill is the only boy she ever loved (Glenn Fitzgerald), who is both "ex-gay" and dying...
Nothing affected me more than seeing the pictures of the innocent faces in this poignant and compelling article. How tragic that such a disease as AIDS has touched the fragile children in Africa. Thank you for embracing the crisis; there will be no more excuses about not acting to save whatever future lies ahead for Africa's children. RON DOTZ Toronto...
...mangled car after learning it was still driveable. This time he hit the wall and didn't move. But for Earnhardt, at 49, to die at the top of his sport and the height of his popularity, on NASCAR's biggest stage? That may be as good, and as poignant, as sport gets, even if sports fans generally like their life-and-death struggles a little more on the metaphorical side. And by Monday morning everybody in America had gotten a taste...