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...Court’s finding that dignity and equality require recognition of same-sex marriages stands in stark contrast to the efforts of some elected officials and activists to write discrimination into the Constitution. It falls on us as citizens to ensure that this dispute is resolved in favor of justice and equal rights. We cannot let special interest groups drown us out as we call on our representatives in Massachusetts to oppose the proposed anti-gay amendment to the state constitution (H.B. 3190) or as we urge our national representatives to oppose the amendment...
...stark contrast to Harvard’s win over St. Lawrence was the team’s blanking at the hands of goaltender Dustin Traylen and the Clarkson Golden Knights (6-4-3, 3-3-1). The Knights 3-0 win marked the first time the skaters from Potsdam, N.Y. have ever shut out the Crimson...
...filmmakers in favor of the city's sleek, sterile thoroughfares. "I took pictures of garbage bags, air-conditioner boxes, cases of empty beer bottles," says Ike. "I came to think of the city as a character in the movie." Tokyo Godfathers' portrayal of the metropolis is so fresh and stark that it's hard to view the city in the same slick way again. Tokyo's bright-eyed homeless men, the occasional sashaying transvestite, and the teenage girls languishing in the shadows like lost children shift into the foreground, while the usual symbols of the capital suddenly seem irrelevant...
...These include its insistence that areas like investment, intellectual property and government procurement be left out of ftaa talks - or, as Amorim says, made "more flexible, so some countries can opt out now and opt in later on" to suit their particular development needs. Given the Western Hemisphere's stark developmental disparities, he says, "you can't have a one-size-fits-all" ftaa. Connolly and other experts call that bunk. "You can't treat a free-trade agreement like a Chinese menu," says a Latin diplomat involved in the negotiations. The U.S. is especially opposed to such "flexibility," seeing...
Numerous disco balls and colored lights shining across the dance floor added even more to the clubby atmosphere—a stark change from routine dorm room parties...