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...face of characterizations like these, we should remind ourselves that neither gay marriage nor homosexuality hurts anyone. They are independent, private choices that pose a threat only to a set of rigid values which disregard basic freedoms and principles, including equality, tolerance and privacy...
...Greenpeace Denmark spokesman, Jacob Hartmann, acknowledges that trying to raise the chemicals "might pose new and even worse problems," but says: "It is not an easy issue, and referring to a 1994 report by the Helsinki Commission isn't good enough. We need updated information on the state and location of the materials." But there are no plans for a new survey, funds are tight and neighboring countries accuse each other of not sharing information. The Ecology and Foreign Affairs committees of Russia's State Duma held joint hearings on weapons in April 2002, then recommended a program of evaluation...
...historic evidence for Indonesian contact with West Africa is shaky, as Beale readily concedes. The case relies largely upon striking similarities in traditional African and Indonesian music. The Madagascar-Ghana portion of the trip is thus at once the most daring and speculative of the expedition. Beale explains: "Academics pose questions such as, 'Could the ancient Indonesians have done this or that?' If we succeed, it won't prove they did it, but then no one can say they couldn't do it. It seems to me an interesting thing to do for itself...
MISS MATCH (NBC). Kate Fox (Alicia Silverstone) is a Los Angeles divorce lawyer and part-time matchmaker who strikes just the right pose: think Ally McBeal with a longer hemline. To make Kate look like she could "kick ass in the courtroom," costume designer Karen Wagner spruced up the sleek business suits. Fashion forecast: just in time for Jil Sander's return...
...passerby on the street?15 offers moments of cloying mawkishness. One character lets his friend stay over after he's been kicked out of his parents' house, and they sleep innocently with arms wrapped around each other in a bed surrounded by pornographic pinups. The kids of 15 pose as hard guys, wear tattoos and rap the names of gangs like a protection mantra, but Tan shows them for what they are: young kids with frail bodies, who have no one but each other...