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...into a crash dive. At the very least, they say, a global-warming treaty must impose strict cutbacks on poor, developing countries as well as on rich, industrial nations. Otherwise, they argue, the U.S. will face unfair competition from foreign corporations. Indeed, the Senate voted unanimously last summer to reject any treaty that let developing nations off the hook...
...conservatives but also caused grumbling among otherwise sympathetic board members. And Angela Oh, a Korean-American attorney, had wanted to broaden the board's discussions to talk about all races, but Franklin declared that the main issue was still black and white. "Some members have very strong views that reject all others," complains another member. "This is dead wrong...
Board? Yes. In New York someone who wants to buy a co-op apartment is also asking to join other residents in a partnership responsible for the entire building, and the board, after examining his references and his tax forms, can reject him without even troubling to give a reason. Supplicants before a co-op board--people who ordinarily may be contentious or even fearsome--accept this treatment without a peep. Now that characters like Somoza and Trujillo and Stroessner have passed from the scene, Americans who live in other cities may get the impression that the exercise of totally...
Lately, some co-op boards have apparently rejected ostensibly qualified buyers--even buyers they wouldn't mind sharing the elevator with every morning--simply to add to the cachet of the building. In other words, a board member who paid $100,000 for an apartment in an A+ building during the down market of the early '70s may reject people willing to pay $15 million for an apartment two floors away in the hope that such rejection will increase the value of his own apartment to $16 million...
...answer, quite plainly, is no. In fact, most conservatives I know are more open-minded and less hypocritical than their liberal colleagues. They'll neither embrace you nor reject you because of your sexual orientation--they simply don't care. It makes no difference if you're gay, just as it makes no difference if you're black, Jewish, rich or poor. What matters to them, instead, is the content of your character. True, those locked into the myopic mind set of "my group against the world" will not garner much sympathy. But not all of us are so provincial...