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...there, that the Republican Party is slowly becoming more and more accepting of LGBT issues.” Patrick Sammon, president of the Log Cabin Republicans, made similar comments prior to the debate. “In the Republican Party the social conservatives are a strong and vocal segment that uses scare tactics to try and keep other Republicans from being more supportive,” Sammon said. “But they probably only represent one in four Republicans.” Both Sammon and Stonewall Democrat President Jon Hoadley said that they saw eye-to-eye on LGBT...
...care who's in the building," Dart said in the release. "We're just not going to evict innocent tenants. It stops today." The Illinois Bankers Association quickly fired back with its own public statement, calling Dart's move "vigilantism." But supporters have been just as vocal; one local resident wrote a letter to the Chicago Tribune hailing Dart as a true American patriot, proclaiming "Dart for President." TIME spoke with the 46-year-old sheriff about his controversial decision, his duties during the economic crisis and how he thinks evictions should be carried...
...group he works for and the environment of college football have shifted since Orleans took office. The presidents, who once so strongly opposed involvement at the highest level of college football, and the playoffs are gone, including Harvard’s own Derek Bok, one of the most vocal opponents of playoffs for the Ivy League. President Faust is on the search committee for a new executive director, although she has given no hints as to who the league might select or her own views on the place (or risks) of football at an Ivy institution...
Hundreds of students gathered in senior suites and House common rooms last Thursday to watch the showdown between Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin and her Democratic counterpart, Joe Biden. While many people—from students to pundits—were vocal in their opinions of the candidates’ performances, few have the inside view of Andrew Halcro, who ran against Palin for governor of Alaska in 2006. Halcro, who attended an executive education program at the Kennedy School in 2003 and another at the Business School the following year, served as a Republican member of the Alaska...
...lecture hall, Kagan prefaced the meeting by saying that “whether we did the right thing or the wrong thing generally” in changing the grading system was not up for debate. But the dean’s initial comments did not prevent a small but vocal group of third-year students from expressing their opposition to the new grading policy...