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...homosexuals will be condescending and superficial at best. The roots of Christian homophobia lie in ancient Levitical laws, the applicability of which to modern society is clearly dubious. There are simply too many other parts of the Bible that Christians no longer believe for us to be able to pretend that contemporary Christian anti-homosexuality is not inspired by secular homophobia...
Overall, Kanz expresses dissatisfaction with his military experience. “They pretend that they have to draft you, that they really need you,” he says. “But there’s not a lot to do. It doesn’t give you a lot of skills. People who want to go to university are pretty bitter about...
...former undergraduates Suzanne Pomey and Randy Gomes: Registration at www.fakedegrees.com ($20.95). They at least deserve to have a pretend Harvard sheepskin, or if they prefer, diplomas from European universities nobody can check...
...election commissioner Suzanne Terrell. The Republicans' strategy: show how close Terrell is to Bush. The Democrats' approach: pretty much the same. That's right, despite the new tough talk from the party's presidential wannabes, the Democrats' best strategy right now is to narrow the gap with Bush, maybe pretend there's no daylight...
With Darego selected, the organizers followed the contest’s tradition of holding the next year’s finals in the winner’s home country. On some level it was a noble decision to pretend that Nigeria was capable of hosting a beauty pageant just like any other stable country. But there was also a very selfish aspect to this choice. The organizers were so determined to improve the pageant’s reputation that they were willing to endanger the safety of the contestants and the Nigerian people...