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...About 2,000 participants - far fewer than the cops protecting them - showed up at the rally. Many were straights who saw the gay clash with religious forces in stark terms: the democratic right of free assembly vs. religious intolerance. "It's now about whether we respect the law in Israel, or give into threats of violence," says Canetti...
French fashion powerhouse Louis Vuitton has had a long history of artistic collaborations--Philippe Stark, Takashi Murakami, Bob Wilson--but their latest venture is probably the riskiest...
...going down before the machine guns like corn before the reaper ... I am sure there was some plan at the back of the attack but it is difficult to know what it was." Sergeant Archie Barwick, a farmer, writes of the German bombardment at Pozi?res: "Men were driven stark staring mad ... Any amount of them could be seen crying & sobbing like children." Corporal Arthur Thomas, a tailor, writes home on his 40th birthday, "I should be out of it by now, but men are wanted, so will stick it to the end." Sgt. Jimmy Downing recalls the fighting at Villers...
...Another challenge facing the G.O.P. is a stark drop-off in support among what is usually a core constituency: white evangelical Christians. According to TIME's poll, only 54% of people in this group favor Republican candidates, with 5% undecided. Thirty-eight percent of white evangelicals polled say they'll support Democrats. In 2004, exit polls indicated that 78% of this constituency voted for Bush. While the G.O.P. won out in the poll by seven points (42-35) as the party perceived as best equipped to protect moral values, a matter especially important to this group, the party's standing...
...writers back forcefully by imbuing each episode with a healthy dose of human folly. Unfortunately, the mere mortals in the show don’t come off as people so much as representations of varying types of lust. This lust-driven view of human relationships stands in stark contrast to that of “Seinfeld,” where all the fun was watching the emotional tug of war outside the bedroom. Rhimes, Clack, and company could have their sex and use it, too, if they only allowed their characters to say something meaningful pre- and post-intercourse...