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...were driven home two years ago when I flew down to Birmingham, Alabama, to deliver a speech at the city's Civil Rights Institute. The institute is right across the street from the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, the site where, in 1963, four young children - Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley, and Denise McNair - lost their lives when a bomb planted by white supremacists exploded during Sunday school, and before my talk I took the opportunity to visit the church. The young pastor and several deacons greeted me at the door and showed me the still-visible scar along...
...look the other way. Last week some conservatives went so far as to insinuate that Foley proves that every gay person is a pedophile waiting to happen. "You don't need 'gaydar' to understand he has certain dispositions," Utah Congressman Chris Cannon told the Deseret News. Televangelist Pat Robertson recommended that G.O.P. leaders simply explain the situation this way: "Well, this man's gay. He does what gay people...
...Dharma Seals, and Plan B for the Type A’s, who gathered around the band while munching on coffee cake, bagels and sundry fruit plates. Asked what the hardest aspect of being in a band was, singer-guitarist L. “Ed” E. Robertson (who is married with children), replied, “Telling your parents that you’re gay.” Although the later event in Lowell Lecture Hall was not promoted as a concert, the band—sporting an array of motorcycle jackets, floppy hats, and sunglasses?...
...Talent is running against a headwind," says David Robertson, political scientist at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. "McCaskill has the wind at her back...
...While approximately 600 students entered the lottery for the $10 tickets to Saturday’s jam session, only about 250 lucked out. The intimate, “Unplugged”-like venue, however, guaranteed great views for all and provided fodder for a few jokes. When guitarist Ed Robertson requested a lyric sheet for a new song, he joked, “By no means should you do this in an exam.” Learning From Performers Program Manager Thomas Lee credited the group’s “world view...