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...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...
...from the era of the nomadic life of hunter-gatherers into a more stable, sedentary mode. Their descendants were likely the inhabitants of West Asia's great kingdoms of antiquity. Somewhere beneath our vision of sceptered monarchs in their pillared palaces, it can be surmised, rests a hobbled woman upon a bed of tortoise shells...
...Sprinting from freshman dorms and House common rooms—faster and with greater urgency than St. John from the empty sepulcher—they descended upon the John Harvard statue to celebrate with their coreligionists and offer thanksgiving for this political redemption. The revival at the statue was only one of many throughout campus—from the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Holyoke to the portico of the Spee Club. But, for a twenty-minute interlude, all fell silent and none stirred abroad as the President-elect delivered his final campaign sermon...
...past him. The goal was the first allowed at even strength by Harvard this season. The Crimson seemed to trim the deficit to one with 40 seconds left, when Alex Biega’s wrist shot found the top right corner of the net, but the goal was disallowed upon video review.RENSSELAER 3, HARVARD 2In a rematch of last Tuesday’s game, Rensselaer (2-5-1, 1-1-0) gave Harvard its first loss of the year Friday, despite the Crimson’s 28-26 lead in shots on goal. Rolecek and senior Nick Coskren scored...
...where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us,” Almustafa says. Gibran had allegedly toyed with the idea of writing a sequel to “The Prophet” in which Almustafa is rejected by his disciples upon his return and then stoned to death by his own people. A bleak end—regardless of the Christian connotations—that expresses Gibran’s own misgivings about his ability to reconcile two cultures. Although the time for reading snippets of “The Prophet?...