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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Essentially, Shepard was lynched - taken from a bar, beaten and left to die because he was the vilified "other," whom society has often cast as an acceptable target of abuse; Dirkhising was just "another" to a pair of deviants. And while child abuse is unfortunately no big news, lynching still is. Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson were not satisfying some animalistic sexual impulse, they were bullies who gratuitously killed someone out of hate for being different than they were. It wasn't about them, it was about Matthew Shepard. Because they dramatically reflected some of society's darkest influences...
...recent attack on abortion has taken a variety of forms, all of which jeopardize women's Constitutional rights. On Sept. 19, the House of Representatives voted to override President Clinton's veto of the bill banning a late-term abortion procedure commonly known as "partial-birth" abortions. While the Senate couldn't muster the required two-thirds majority to override the veto last week, the debate has brought the issue of abortion to the center of the political arena...
...also pushed for gun control, but said that nothing will happen until big money interests are taken out of politics and power taken from the lobbies, particularly...
...Since those junior high glory days, Putnam hasn't bowled in a league. But, he says, "I get taken to go bowling surprisingly often by students. So I do get to go bowling more often than I used to. But I'm not in a league...
...that both parents are for the most part working outside the home, Putnam says, no one is left to do the community building. "We've taken a huge hit without quite knowing it, because the people who used to do [social capital building] weren't getting paid for it--it wasn't getting recognized...