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...given up on doing much of anything before the election, except for one piece of business--the Defense of Marriage bill, a pre-emptive strike at the possibility that a Hawaiian court may recognize unions between homosexuals. It's not immediately apparent why this bill should jump the queue ahead of the potential bankruptcy of Medicare and bills to keep the government running. The Hawaiian courts will not rule until the end of the year, and it will be 1997 before same-sex couples wed in the islands could wash up on these shores, expecting shoes and rice...
...print in its entirety every letter that is signed, pertinent to Harvard and written in terms appropriate for publication. We try to print them in order of receipt, but some letters are newsworthy in themselves and jump to the front of the queue...
...motorized cortege bore the warrior statesman up the highway from Tel Aviv to the Holy City, teary-eyed mourners lined the route. And when he came to rest in the brilliant blue November afternoon on a catafalque outside the Knesset, hundreds of thousands of Israelis, in a queue two kilometers long, filed quietly past to pay their last respects...
...then made a last-ditch effort and went to the Science Center basement. The Every Mac was in use (the program I needed was Mac-only), so I joined in "organic queue of folks waiting for machines to become free...
...what you're about to read doesn't make you sick at heart about creativity in Hollywood, then you may as well queue up now for that future film smash, Love Connection: The Movie...