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Just as the homosexual community adopted the word “gay,” some atheists have employed a similar method to educate others and improve the image of atheists in society. A few years ago, Paul Geisert and Mynga Futrell, of Sacramento, California started the Brights Movement, an effort to encourage the use of the word “bright” to refer to anyone with a worldview free of the mystical and the supernatural. “A bright” is totally different from being bright. The word was not chosen because brights consider themselves...
...jazz and baseball, but it's his new opus on World War II that has earned the ire of Latino groups. The 14-hour film War, set to air in September, focuses on the lives of 40 Americans in four U.S. cities - Waterbury, Conn.; Mobile, Ala.; Luverne, Minn.; and Sacramento, Calif. And the fact that not one of the 40 subjects is Latino that has Hispanic veterans' groups and politicians crying foul...
...Harvard women’s tennis team traveled to California this past week, winning one match and losing two. The Crimson improved its record to 2-11 after hard-fought matches against Sacramento State, UC Davis, and Pacific.Harvard lost to 51st-ranked Sacramento State on Saturday, falling just short in two of three decisive singles matches for a final score of 5-2. That defeat came after the Crimson shocked UC Davis on Friday, winning 6-1 and handing the Aggies their second home loss of the season. Harvard blew a late lead against Pacific in a 4-3 loss...
...Bobby Kennedy vs. Ronald Reagan - it's the grand matchup we were denied. They debated once, mostly about Vietnam, on a 1967 CBS telecast that featured Reagan in Sacramento, Calif., and Kennedy in New York City answering questions from students in London. (It was generally agreed that Reagan bested Kennedy, who asked afterward, "Who the f___ got me into this?") Who would not have relished a repeat confrontation between the conservative champion and the liberal prophet? Perhaps in October, when Thompson and Obama stand across the stage from each other, the hopes and dreams of both parties riding on their...
...what happens.” The Crimson take on UC Davis (9-7) Friday in a match placed on the schedule to fill a cancellation by Northwestern. As with the match against Pacific, the Crimson face no ranked individuals nor doubles duos. The third match, against Sacramento State on Saturday, will be a homecoming of sorts for senior Mukundan, who hails from nearby Folsom, Calif. Mukundan grew up playing at the local club, and knows both players and coaches on the Hornets. “There should be quite a turnout,” Graham said. “She?...