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...Cambridge, emphasized the city’s example in legalizing gay marriage and advocated spreading the “sweet wine of freedom” across the country. Cambridge was the first city to legalize gay marriage and has had two consecutive gay mayors. “The sky did not fall,” said Mayor E. Denise Simmons at yesterday’s rally. Simmons, who married her partner when Cambridge legalized same-sex marriage in 2004, is the first black lesbian to be elected mayor in the United States. She provided messages of optimism to the crowd...
...size but lacked every one of the stabilizing pillars that had been erected beneath it after the Great Depression: deposit insurance, access to a lender of last resort, a system for orderly failure, and reasonable constraints on risk and leverage. With near bottomless funds from money-market investments and sky-high leveraging limits, the shadow system financed the bubble that is now bursting. (See "Four Steps to Ending the Foreclosure Crisis...
...about 5:45 p.m., the most beautiful time of day, when the sun glows orange and the river’s reflective darkness stands out against the rusty color of the sky and the luxuriant spinach green of the jungle. As I sat idly watching and sipping my coffee, I was startled by the sight of two small gray porpoises jumping in sync out of the river....Almost immediately, from around the bend came two Pirahã canoes, their riders paddling for all they were worth, in pursuit of the porpoises, trying to touch them with their paddles...
...duckling leading other ducklings,” my friend remarked after seeing me guiding the group of girls around campus. Well, in that case, I was feeling very much like the ugly duckling in a flock of Technicolor birds. Even their electronic dictionaries were of pearl pinks and sky blues. Though their pocket dictionaries largely mediated our communication, the girls were able to translate the popular fashions in Japan to me: “lace,” “sporty,” American casual (pronounced “a-meri-caji?...
...light from your lighthouse shine on me.” And if that wasn’t schmaltzy enough for you, how about “Dance ’Til We’re High?” “We will dance / Light up the sky / Bells will ring out for our love… We’ll sing till we fly together / We’ll dance ’til we’re high together.” This all sounds well and good. But when sung by Paul McCartney and backed...