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MADRID, Spain—The Fourth of the July has never evoked images of red, white and blue American pride in my mind, but instead a series of disastrous or meaningless celebrations. I recall the time 12 years ago when my best friend spent the whole celebration at Baltimore’s inner harbor crying because, she claimed, a firework had inexplicably fallen from the sky and hit her eye. I think of July 5, the night my parents usually took me to see fireworks during my childhood so that we could avoid the crowds. I remember my high school...
...case, whale meat is no longer fashionable among many Japanese, especially the young, so the issue has become less about taste than national pride. "We don't want to be told what to do," says Takanori Nagatomo, chief of the Whaling Section of the Fisheries Agency. Until the whole country decides to go whaleless, Shamu would be wise to steer clear of Japan...
...only the next day, upon reading coverage of Pride, that I put the various parts together and realized the special importance of the events this year: In July, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court is expected to announce its decision in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, a case that could grant legal unions to same-sex couples in the Commonwealth. Pride 2003 was, the Boston Globe reported, “a reminder to thousands of onlookers that a battle is being waged right in court right now over same sex marriages...
...potential imminence of same-sex unions in Massachusetts did not get much air time during Gaypril, Harvard’s academic-calendar-friendly version of June’s Gay Pride Month. What the Harvard public saw, instead, was quarrelling between student groups...
...conservative groups are grumbling forebodingly that they might look elsewhere in 2004 if President Bush seems too friendly to gays. Already, these groups have been successful in their efforts to force U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft to call off the Justice Department’s office-wide Pride celebration...