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Homosexual rights in America are climbing up a very slippery slope. The US Supreme Court’s decision ruling against sodomy laws and, more recently, the Massachusetts Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of gay marriage have been two major steps in the direction of equality of sexuality. These rulings have sparked the anger of the conservative right against both the Supreme Court and the Massachusetts rulings...
Park City is an old mining town 27 miles east of Salt Lake City that resurrected its soul through skiing. Two of its three resorts were host to Olympic events. Stein Eriksen Lodge (800-453-1302), located on Deer Valley's slopes, and Hotel Park City (435-940-5000) offer some of the town's most luxurious digs. After skiing, guests at Stein's place (the former Norwegian Olympian still mingles) can visit the day spa or soak in private hot tubs. The woodwork of the year-old Hotel Park City is reminiscent of that found in the old national...
Sulzberger added that the board should avoid “setting a precedent for revisiting its judgments over many decades.” Yet the slippery-slope argument is not very compelling here. Consider that in December 2002, Columbia University rescinded Michael Bellesiles’s Bancroft Prize after it was discovered that his award-winning book, Arming America, relied on fabricated sources. Were the Pulitzer Board to revoke Duranty’s prize, it would not threaten past Pulitzer winners any more than the rescinding of Bellesiles’s award threatened previous Bancroft winners...
...this! Not that this is any excuse, but if you can make your peace with the carnage, the game play is a bracing change from the usual button-mashing slugfests: Manhunt's thrills aren't in the action; they're in the taut, panting breaks in between, the up slope of the roller coaster, the pause just before the kill. It's a game that rewards thought and patience--which is, of course, a virtue. You might mention that when you tell your kids it will be a while before they're old enough to play...
...dirt his men find a long, half-buried wire. It leads in one direction to where the humvees are parked, and in the other, up a rough slope. Sergeant Allen Grenz begins following the wire. As he crests the hill, Grenz spots a rustle in underbrush. Crouched under a pine are three enemy fighters. It clicks in Grenz's brain that the wire, a blast cable, is leading straight up to the enemy. (Later the soldiers find that the wire was set to detonate five antitank mines buried under the humvees.) Grenz quickly absorbs the danger: one of the fighters...