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...Virgil was the last civil rights casualty of the summer of '63--when the defining social movement of 20th century America became a national concern and not just a Southern one. Network television brought the season's atrocities into U.S. living rooms along with the triumphs, such as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington 2 1/2 weeks earlier. Northerners, including President John F. Kennedy and his Attorney General brother Robert, enlisted in the struggle that would lead to the passage of the landmark Civil Rights...
...lifestyle. Singapore is still a traditional and conservative Asian society. Gays must know that the more they lobby for public space, the bigger the backlash they will provoke from the conservative mainstream." Singaporeans have spoken out on this issue, and the boundaries have clearly been drawn. (The Rev.) Yang Tuck Yoong Singapore...
...strike—the second in under a year to occur at Yale, a university with a long history of labor strife—has brought luminaries such as the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson to New Haven, but no resolution to the dispute between the administration and the workers...
...early pre-Hollywood films. After a six-year partnership with the architect William Russell dissolved, Adjaye formed his own practice in 2000. He now has a staff of more than two dozen working on projects not only in Britain but in the U.S. as well. Last year the Rev. Eugene Rivers, a Boston-based activist clergyman, commissioned Adjaye to design an arts-and-media charter school in Dorchester, Mass...
...repercussions will start when people go home to their congregations, when rectors meet parishioners at the church door, when people start to say, 'I'm out of here.'" THE REV. DAVID C. ANDERSON, president of the American Anglican Council, criticizing the confirmation of the Rev. V. Gene Robinson as the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church and the worldwide Anglican Communion...