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Last Friday, Federal civil-rights mediators descended on the town of Ovett, Mississippi to take on their first gay-harassment case. A lesbian couple attempting to found what The New York Times described as "a feminist and lesbian retreat and conference center" had met powerful resistance from the community, including verbal and written threats and a dead dog draped over their mailbox. Fears of violence brought the mediators from Washington to investigate...
This time Aaron Israel got the call, but by game's end he needn't have bothered with such gestures; many of the home folks already had trickled out of Gutterson Fieldhouse like the melting snow, dirty in hits retreat down the hill from the arena towards Lake Champlain, after another two-goal Harvard victory...
...Hugues Quester), a world famous composer, was in the midst of writing a concerto celebrating the unification of Europe when he was killed. A reporter covering Patrice's death mentions the rumor that it is actually Julie who composed her husband's works. After the tragedy, Julie attempts to retreat from society, moving to a seedy section of Paris. She sells most of her material belongings, using the money to provide for the senile mother who no longer recognizes...
...similar way, of course, the bourgeoisie deserved every bashing it took under Soviet communism: After the revolution, the Zhivago family had to retreat to a corner of their Moscow mansion and submit to the insults of the proletariat who moved in to abuse the former masters and break up the furniture for firewood...
Besides, a simple astronomical model would predict smooth and gradual climate transitions -- the opposite of what really happens. The last Ice Age was in full retreat about 13,000 years ago when temperatures suddenly reversed and began heading lower again. They stayed low for 1,000 years, an episode known as the Younger Dryas period. The periodic "spikes" of warmer weather that have interrupted ice ages and the cold weather that often came on suddenly in the last interglacial period are also impossible to explain with astronomy. And so is the astonishingly rapid changeover from warm to cold...