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...rights are a perennial source of debate in California, but the rhetoric used on both sides is now reaching near-apocalyptic levels. In such a large and influential state, whatever voters do to alter the Constitution has a sense of permanency and importance. But although the most money and vocal opposition has been poured into California, it is not the only state with a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage on the table. Both Arizona’s Proposition 102 and Florida’s Amendment 2 raise similar choices. Voters should give the thumbs down...
...Salient, which he feared had given more accepting Republicans at Harvard a bad name. The editorial, entitled “The Salient is not the Right,” sent a clear message to students: the new HRC no longer supported divisive exhibitionism of a polarizing “vocal minority...
...just the past six years, Ed has been instrumental in changing our publication date to Friday, in igniting TIME International's explosive growth, in developing TIME.com into a must-read destination and in launching Time's Style & Design luxury supplement. More than all of that, Ed was a vocal champion of the great journalism that we do every week in the magazine and every day on TIME.com We will miss his good humor and fierce loyalty, but his impact will live on in what we do every day. I know of no greater legacy than that...
...marriage rights for same-sex couples, we believe that it is far more likely that same-sex couples will be treated equally under Obama’s watch, should a case involving the Defense of Marriage Act make it to the federal court system. On the other hand, the vocal support given to Governor Palin (and, by extension, Senator McCain) by the intolerant and extremist representatives of the religious Right is particularly worrisome. For too long, these demagogues of bigotry and anti-intellectual skepticism have dominated the discourse in American politics; it is time that Senator Obama restore a sense...
...College would be surprised by this figure. The words “liberal” and “faculty” seem to have been conjoined at the College for generations.But now, as the election moves into its final days, McCain supporters on the faculty are vocal in their demands for more political diversity in their departments, bemoaning a kind of underclass of conservative faculty. Some have even called on University President Drew G. Faust to institute an affirmative action policy in hiring decisions that would bring more ideological balance to the faculty.CAMBRIDGE INSIDE THE BELTWAYIn a search...