Word: rightfulness
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...there any places that are getting it right now? That serve as a model for what you'd like to see? There are communities around the country that get it right. Maplewood, N.J., has all the attributes of a Whitopia - high property values, great public schools, neighborliness - and yet it's also integrated and very diverse...
...What Prop 8 did for my generation," Ting told me the night before the march, at Restaurant Nora, "is that unlike past generations before, we had never been through something like where progress didn't seem inevitable. Suddenly, some right that was given was taken back. I think that had a huge effect on my generation - to say, wait a minute, you mean, if I voted for and maybe wrote a check to the Democratic Party, that's not enough...
...Jones felt dejected. His friend Dustin Lance Black, a screenwriter who worked on Milk and had traveled with him to Nevada, told him they could make things right by getting gay people to demand - Harvey Milk-style - precisely what they wanted, without compromise: equal rights in all matters covered by every public law, state or federal. That sentiment, born of regret and anger, eventually became the motto of Sunday's march, one featured on almost every mailing sent by its organizers: "Equal protection for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in all matters governed by civil...
...Right then I thought of a conversation I had had with Ting, the young private-equity associate and march organizer. He had told me that he didn't know that in 1993, Mixner - the gay activist and friend of Bill Clinton's who helped agitate for this year's march - had been arrested outside the White House for opposing Clinton's infamous "Don't ask, don't tell" policy for gays in the military, the same policy that gays are now impatiently waiting on Obama to overturn. "A lot of us were 9 or 10 years old in 1993," Ting...
...Naturally, though, such a controversial idea is bound to spark opposition, especially in France. Organizations representing parents, teachers and students from the right and left alike have denounced the measure as sending an unacceptable message to students about what education is about. "We strongly oppose the idea of remunerating students for having fulfilled the basic requirement of attending school," says Philippe Vrand, president of the Parents of Public School Students group. "We should spend this money making sure vocational students who wanted to learn cooking can get into those programs rather than being shunted into car repair because there...