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...pain the Cheney’s are feeling is the same pain that millions of families with gay and lesbian members have had put upon them by the homophobic elements within today’s political right. The difference is that Dick Cheney, a man of power, stood and watched while his supporters created the monster that now glares down upon him. Any reader of fairy tales knows how this story ends...
...Crimson outshot Windsor 15-1 in the first frame, but the Lancers’ goaltender, Reese Kalleitner, stood tall between the pipes. He had played just 20 minutes against the Tigers, allowing two goals on nine shots...
...talk that this year was supposed to diverge from Ivy normalcy, here we are, six weeks deep into the season and—shockingly—nothing has changed. Princeton and Yale have already begun their annual late-season swoon, and Brown, Columbia, Cornell and Dartmouth never really stood a chance in the first place...
...What's startling is the sheer variety of workmanship, from the spiral stone carvings of the chambered mounds of County Meath in Ireland, to the huge mortice - and - tenoned pedestals of the island of Menorca. The Scandinavians stood their stones in boat formation; the Portuguese shaped them like eggs. What they had in common is that tribal leaders put them there to prove they'd picked the right spot, says Cope. "They mythologized it for being flood - free, fertile and safe. That's a universal response." Archaeologists might well pick holes in his arguments; they lent an indulgent...
...They stood in formation for almost half an hour before President Bush showed up, and when he did, according to Davies, he made a five-minute speech, got his picture taken, shook the hands of some people in the front row, and left. “I was rather bitter that the President couldn’t even take the time to shake my hand,” Davies lamented. “In previous years President Clinton did a receiving line and shook the hand of every single Olympian...Some of my friends and I were joking that...