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...women now serve in the British Parliament, including two in the Cabinet. Last June, Nicolas Sarkozy appointed Frédéric Mitterrand, a gay television presenter, to the post of Minister of Culture. Paris' Mayor Bertrand Delanoë, tipped by some to contest the 2012 presidential race, is gay. And Guido Westerwelle, chairman of Germany's Free Democratic Party, has just become his country's Foreign Minister, joining a gay élite that includes the mayors of Berlin and Hamburg, Germany's two largest cities. Klaus Wowereit, Berlin's mayor, says coming out ahead of the 2001 mayoral race...
Still, that's a long way from the climate faced by many gay politicians in America. Opponents of gay candidates there often focus the race on sexuality - and have found that it wins them more votes. Jim Roth, former Oklahoma county commissioner and the state's first publicly elected gay official, says that in 2002, rivals wrongly claimed his partner had AIDS. In 2006, church groups, he says, passed out literature claiming he would "advance the homosexual agenda." In 2008, while running for a post to oversee the state's energy resources, he faced similar attacks and lost. "Their coordinated...
Perhaps the most impressive performance of the day belonged to junior Darcy Wilson, whose time of 2:29.95 earned him first place in the men’s 1000-meter race, as well as an invitation to IC4As. Wilson battled until the final moment, holding off Andrew MacIsaac of Boston College by just .02 seconds...
...Wilson] is a tough kid, he runs hard no matter what you put him in,” co-captain Jack Brady said. “That [race] was right in his wheelhouse...
...final Crimson winner on the men’s side was rookie Jeff Homer, who captured the 500-meter title in 1:05.29. Sophomore Jared Squires finished second in the event, but the race proved even more fruitful for the Harvard women, as the squad earned four of the top seven spots. Freshman Melissa Bellin and sophomore Lauren Leon placed third and fourth to pace the Crimson, and the two runners showed even more promise in the 400. Bellin and Leon teamed with sophomore Shannon Conway and freshman Jasmine Cho to win the 4x400-meter relay by over two seconds...