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...grass-roots sentiments help propel the religious right's top priority for this year: to stomp out the possibility of civil marriages for gays. The furor was touched off in 1993 when the Hawaii supreme court ruled that denying marriage licenses to three gay couples appeared to violate the equal-protection clause of the state constitution. The case was remanded to a lower court, and is not expected to be thoroughly settled before 1998. But the religious right has been galvanized by fears that a gay marriage in Hawaii might, under the U.S. Constitution, have to be recognized in other...
...trying to imply that a contest in which some brute is permitted to pound his opponent into submission by nearly any means at his disposal--a knee to the groin, a stomp on the nose--is, when all is said and done, slightly wimpish. I certainly mean no disrespect to those who participate in Ultimate Fighting and may list their hobbies as "beating smart alecks to a pulp...
Mansfield want to "stomp out" the Strategic Offense Society for pointing out the racism that he would like to cloak in the form of jokes. We're hurting his image. Although bigotry is omnipresent, blatant forms are unacceptable causes an openly racist person is subject to social condemnation. Why does Mansfield fit in so well here at Harvard? Because he has mastered the paradoxical art of being a bigot while arguing from an institutionally supported "intellectual" position. Henry Louis Gates and A. Leon Higginbotham have noted that The Bell Curve proves that it is not the uneducated racist...
...argument here, coach. Your team has shown it can thrash an Ivy foe (6-2 over Penn on Saturday), come from behind to topple a tough non-League opponent (4-1 in over-time against Colgate on Sunday) and then stomp on a fledgling program...
...country with a government so disgraced that nothing shames it anymore. The whole event has been an insult to womanhood, a parody of a conference. The joke was played by Beijing dictators but permitted by those who attended. Everybody seemed to cajole the Chinese bully, hoping he would stomp on heads more gently. The intimidator did just the opposite. Are we waiting until the Chinese bully grows so big that nobody is able to constrain him? JOANNA YU Surrey, British Columbia...