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...club bases its arguments for a traditional family on the complementary nature of gender roles and claims that a monogamous relationship between a man and a woman has been recognized throughout history and cultures as the ideal foundation for a family. Not only does this argument smack of essentialism and ignore empirical evidence that refutes the inferiority of same-sex parenting, but it is also made exclusively from a contemporary Western, Judeo-Christian perspective that ignores the presence of polygamy in many African and Muslim countries as well as its prevalence throughout history...

Author: By Lena Chen | Title: The Abstinence Mystique | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

...according to Widing, the team is confident that it will win—and some of them have even been "talking smack...

Author: By Esther I. Yi | Title: Eight Olympic Rowers Have Lunch At Bartley's | 10/15/2009 | See Source »

Imagine if the Empire State Building were to be placed smack in the middle of Venice or Jerusalem. Jutting out from the ancient streets, a skyscraper of that size would seem absurdly out of sync with the iconic beauty of the cities. Developers would likely never get such a proposal approved. But in Russia the rules are different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle over a New Skyscraper for St. Petersburg | 10/6/2009 | See Source »

...itself, progressives have even less patience for producing the kind of centrist bill that Baucus has been pushing. But Dems will probably stick with a centrist bill because no one builds majorities from the extreme left or right, and the holy grail(s) are those independent voters who sit smack in the middle. A CNN poll earlier this month found that for the first time, a majority of independents, 53%, disapproved of Obama's handling of health care - a 13-point drop since March. (See TIME's health and medicine covers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Risks for Dems Going It Alone on Health Care | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

...summer, benefitted from financial incentives offered by Harvard University. The university owns the real estate JP Licks currently occupies, and it essentially invited the franchise in, offering the popular Boston-area chain preferential access to the space and a lease at a below-market rate. To some, such incentives smack of the sort of anti-competitive practices that have no place in a free-market system...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: A Sad Day for a Sweet Tooth | 9/20/2009 | See Source »

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