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...course there are important differences. "The comparison with slavery is a stretch," Jesse Jackson asserted in a speech at Harvard last year, "in that some slave masters were gay, in that gays were never called three-fifths human in the Constitution and in that they did not require the Voting Rights Act to have the right to vote." All of which is true. Race is most often, rightly or not, signified physically. While gays have been, and still are in many instances, forced to play straight, they at least had a refuge. It was historically difficult, usually impossible, and often...
...effect after the first person missed her serve, and it got into our heads and we lost focus.”The Lions won the third game 30-28, and went on to carry its momentum into the fifth and deciding game, running off seven straight points during a stretch to seal the match, 3-2 (16-30, 28-30, 30-28, 30-24, 15-9). Amalia Viti of Columbia had a match-high 18 kills, and Shannon Hunzicker recorded 64 assists. “We started making mistakes,” Weiss said, “but Columbia also...
...would have blamed them for a sub-par performance. Traveling to Rhode Island and Connecticut for the last stops on the most grueling stretch of its schedule, the Crimson co-ed sailing team could have been forgiven for showing some signs of fatigue, despite the importance of the upcoming Atlantic Coast Championships. Instead, however, the team ended its series of marathon weekends with a bang, surging to a second-place finish in the Nelson Regatta at Connecticut College and missing first by only ten points—a performance that could prove to be important for the upcoming...
...Disch is one of the businessmen who has benefited from that environmental focus. He ducks under a low-hanging beam as he steps out onto the roof of the solar-powered office and apartment building in the Vauban neighborhood, which he designed and which opened last week. Below him stretch row after row of brightly painted buildings with solar-paneled roofs. He points out that each unit actually produces more energy than it uses, so residents can sell their surplus power to badenova - at j0.54 per kW-h. It's another advantage to going alternative that appeals to consumers like...
...rely on strong family ties, cemented through marriage, to keep its secrets. "Cosa Nostra is much more hierarchical," says the police officer. "Here, control is even stronger because no one talks." Not a single arrest has been made for any of the past year's 23 murders in this stretch of eastern Calabria. Local residents say that they are not complicit in omertà, the mob code of protective silence. But most are scared that the government cannot protect them if they talk. Lingering in front of the cathedral after Fortugno's funeral, Giuseppe Macri, 50, says he was skeptical...