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...measure applies to unmarried heterosexual couples as well as homosexual partners over 18, but there is little question that the idea was gay-inspired. To qualify for the benefits, couples unrelated by blood or marriage pay a $23 filing fee, then swear that they "share the common necessaries of life." If the relationship breaks up, a person must inform the city and wait six months before claiming a new partner. Mayor Dianne Feinstein has not yet signed the legislation, but since it passed by an 8-to-3 vote, her veto would probably be overriden...
Bess Truman, who died last week at 97, went to Washington a Mid-western housewife who had lived all her life under the same roof with her mother. She did not smoke or drink or swear. She liked Charles Dickens and Sir Walter Scott but thought modern novels "a waste of time." After her husband succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt in the White House, Bess burned a stack of Harry's love letters. "But think of history," Harry protested. "I have," she said...
...concentrate as four disembodied voices exhaustively lay out the play's premise. The King of Navarre (Alex Pearson) has persuaded his three friends. Dumanine, Longaville, and Berowne, to join in a vow to study for three years-fasting, rarely sleeping, and forswearing the company of women. They all swear, despite misgivings, quite forgetting that the Princess of France is arriving that day on an embassy from her father, bringing three ladies...
...contributed to the collapse of a serious relationship. "A lot of time I couldn't be sexual," he says. "She saw it as a way of rejecting her. I withdrew emotionally and she didn't understand. Finally she moved out. I felt guilty, asexual." Many feel asexual enough to swear off sex. Seattle Medical Assistant Mike Remington says: "We hear it over and over: 'I won't have sex ever again...
Since 1542, the Society of Jesus has been the "Pope's light cavalry," serving as front-line educators and missionaries. The most elite Jesuits swear a special vow of fealty to the Pope, which in practice has allowed Roman Catholicism's biggest and most influential men's order to pursue a course throughout the world that is largely independent of local bishops and parishes. But during the past decade the light cavalry has also been somewhat independent of what the Pope would like. John Paul II is not a Pontiff to suffer such waywardness in prayerful silence...