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...which is covered under existing hate-crime legislation, is as much a choice as ideology, so why not protect the latter? Should political leanings be placed under the umbrella of hate-crimes protections? Should this aegis be extended to include Neo-Nazis and Klansmen? Why not include hatred based upon weight, height, hair color, state of origin, sports-team affliation, or any other demographic characteristic under hate-crimes protections...
This inexorable ambiguity permeates all facets of what constitutes a hate crime, including the highly questionable notion that the repugnance of a crime escalates due to the intangible, unquantifiable impact that it has upon those to whom the perpetrator did nothing. Proponents of hate-crimes legislation posit that crimes committed against individuals due to their gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation are particularly heinous due to the fact that they intimidate and offend all members of those groups. But all crimes, by their very nature, intimidate and offend more than just the victims, for crimes are affronts to society...
...friends who received travel warnings while planning spring-break trips to Cancun—a recent trip to Mexico proved that the drug problem producing this violence is unavoidable even in the “safest” parts of the country. After only a week, my family stumbled upon a murder scene and learned of the death of a close friend at the hands of La Familia. A recent law to legalize possession of small amounts of drugs in Mexico is a step in the right direction, but much more remains to be done...
...start of the Boston Marathon and then jumped into the race shortly after the starting gun fired, finishing (unofficially) in 3 hr. 21 min. 40 sec. The next year, Kathrine Switzer registered for the race as "K.V. Switzer," and Boston officials, unaware of her sex, allowed her to compete. Upon noticing K.V. was no man, a race official tried to physically remove her from the course; her boyfriend, running nearby, gave him a shove and she finished the race. (Switzer went on to win the New York City Marathon in 1974.) In 1980, women comprised 10.5% of marathon runners; today...
...That first group included Adam Garone, now the global CEO of Movember. Garone says the men quickly realized they had stumbled upon a serendipitous pairing. Women had October and the pink ribbon to represent the fight against breast cancer - men could have November and the mustache. By the second year, Movember had 450 participants in Australia and raised $55,000 toward prostate cancer research. By 2008, Movember had more than 170,000 participants worldwide and had raised nearly $30 million for prostate and testicular cancer research...