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...network as blue-state-oriented as HBO (each of its current sitcoms, for instance, is about show business), Big Love is a surprising detour to the reddest of the red states. In the drama, which debuts in summer 2006, characters declare their faith as easily as those on Deadwood swear. Co-creators Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer, neither of whom is Mormon, say they were interested in the conflict within Bill, who came from a polygamist compound but now lives in the mainstream suburbs of Salt Lake City. The fundamentalists, says Olsen, see the LDS Church "as sellouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Three's Company | 11/9/2005 | See Source »

...pure perfect union of congenial spirits, to establish freedom of intercourse between those who like each other, to provide for the common defense against gruids, freaks, and such encumbrances, to secure the blessings of society, to ourselves and our successors, do ordain and establish THE~CLUB. I do solemnly swear or affirm that I will faithfully keep the existence of this club secret to the best of my ability and will preserve, protect, and defend its constitution and may I be hauled up before the dean if I do not remain forever true to this my solemn oath...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Doherty, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Old Girls’ Club | 11/9/2005 | See Source »

...standing up to denounce the prejudice and injustice we face. In my case, Islam is an enormous part of who I am, just as being French is. The two aren't in opposition or even mutually exclusive. Yet when you hear the debate in France today, you'd swear they must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Much More French Can I Be? | 11/6/2005 | See Source »

...Last year, before this, I thought I was having really good sex,” announced Jenna M. Mellor ’08 to a capacity crowd in Emerson Hall last night. “But I can swear,” she added, “fingers crossed, that it was better after this seminar.” Judging from the turnout for this year’s incarnation of the Female Orgasm Seminar—organized by Mellor and other members of the Radcliffe Union of Students—students of all genders and sexualities were hoping...

Author: By Laurence H. M. holland, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sex Boutique Owner Teaches Techniques | 11/4/2005 | See Source »

...told them, ''the people will support us.'' But not all the people. Both men are dangerously flanked by extremists. Muslim fundamentalists and other militant factions have vowed to break any deal that delivers less than an independent Palestinian state now, this instant. Fanatical settlers and other right-wing Jews swear never to give up one inch of the West Bank soil that is part of what they call Eretz Yisrael, the land God gave to the Jews. The pressure from enemies only complicates an already knotty negotiation. When the two were alone with President Clinton just before the ceremony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YITZHAK RABIN & YASSER ARAFAT | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

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