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...Longtime gay rights advocate Dean Trantalis of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and others on the conference call expressed concern that the gay rights movement had become too focused on marriage, and is now paying the price in other more critical areas. "Marriage was never our issue," Trantalis said. "It was thrust upon us by the other side, and they've done a very good job of beating us up over...
...Harvard Square. Just like that. No warning, no explanation, just “Whaam!” “Pow!” “Pop!” and there it was: art and fashion (and the philosophical ponderings of the intersection between the two) thrust upon me by a pair of kicks. With the conference celebrating Andy Warhol’s legacy at the Sackler this past weekend and Barack Obama’s image superimposed on t-shirts and posters across campus, this idea of art, popular culture, and fashion—that...
...plunged his large, raw hands savagely into the freshly turned soil, over and over. Dirt flew from the holes he dug and sullied the pale, delicately veined petals of her petunias.He reached into a pouch that hung from his belt, and his red fist emerged full of seeds. He thrust them into the soil, and she gasped in sudden fury. How dare he! He was planting squash. At her gasp, the new gardener turned and fixed a dark eye upon her. She could feel the heat from its glance and immediately sensed the evil of the heat. He lazily drew...
...allow foreign corporations a share in the deepwater reserves in the Gulf of Mexico, which may hold as much as 50 billion barrels. Nor will the trans-nationals be able to build and run refineries on Mexican soil as Calderon proposed in his bill filed in April. The thrust of the new law approved Tuesday is simply to allow government oil monopoly Pemex to subcontract foreign companies to explore and drill in specific parts of Mexico. Furthermore, crucial clauses allow Pemex to be able pay those companies by performance...
...Black Watch soldiers don't hate war; they hate the war they've been thrust into, in which their traditions mean nothing, the enemy can't be understood, and--the final insult and the cause of much controversy in Scotland--their unit is broken up. "It takes 300 years to build an army that's admired and respected around the world," an officer says. "But it only takes two years pissing about in the desert in the biggest Western foreign policy disaster ever to f___ it up completely." The result, after an hour and 50 minutes with these proud, profane...