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Mack sounds like the sensitive type, and financially secure to boot. But before you eligible bachelors get too excited and decide to write back to Mack, you might compare yourselves against Mack's stringent requirements. First, you'll have to be the hyper-virile type, because among all gays, "effeminacy, in speech, looks, or mannerisms, is very common." Then you'll have to bring your voice down a few octaves, because "their is a tendency to whine and shriek." And don't pay too much attention to your appearance, because, of course, "gays show much greater vanity." But be gorgeous...
After a week of tortuous negotiations the Senate approved $16 billion in cuts from the current budget. The Senate package, which restores money cut by the House to social programs-a result of Democratic prodding-will have to be reconciled with the House's more stringent $17 billion in cuts...
...Perhaps by legal standards she was O.K., butHarvard's standards are obviously in this casemore stringent than the legal standards," saidformer U.C. President David L. Hanselman...
Pilon believes that as medical science and psychology uncover rational explanations for more cures, it becomes increasingly difficult to name something a miracle. He regrets the trend and, without relaxing his own stringent standards, suggests that the church give more importance to instances where the divine can be said to have been present in a cure, without being its sole explanation. "Ordinary Christians want to see the action of God," he says bluntly. "People are hungry for signs...
...academic career. Then she made some phone calls and learned a bit more about the professor she had come to view as a predator. In June she will tell her story in federal court, but even before a verdict is rendered, the case has prompted Penn to consider more stringent rules on student-teacher sex. Depending on the outcome of her trial, love life on campus may never be the same...