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...singer's death was, as the coroner had ruled, due to natural causes. Moir speculated that Gately's gay lifestyle may have played a part. "Healthy and fit 33-year-old men do not just climb into their pyjamas and go to sleep on the sofa, never to wake up again," she wrote. "Whatever the cause of death is, it is not, by any yardstick, a natural one." Gately's death, she added, was also a "blow to the happy-ever-after myth of civil partnerships." (See pictures: "Gay Rights: Stonewall to Prop...
...captive to the lies of Glenn Beck and co., but they appear unlikely to trust the words of any politician, even the most charismatic one. Furthermore, the White House will hardly be viewed as an objective arbiter of the truth if it continues to level such retaliations in the wake of the national imbroglio that is the health-care “debate.” And even if the administration could critique Fox from a position of unquestionable credibility, ad hominem assaults are not the way to dispel the fogs of fiction...
Lampoon President, Matthew K. Grzecki ’10, gave some insight into the extent of the Lampoon’s preparations. “Over the summer, John [B. Owen ’10] and I, we’d basically wake up every morning and go to Widener Library and go to the stacks and read about vampires,” he says. Beyond merely hitting the books, they also engaged in some practical research. A few members of the Lampoon made a trip to Forks in Washington and went on a tour...
...program, which was introduced at the University in the wake of the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings, came under scrutiny for failing to deliver messages properly—or at all—during the Harvard shooting. Text messages were cut short and about two percent of the 14,000 subscribers in the program were not reached during the incident, University spokesman Kevin Galvin wrote in an e-mailed statement at the time...
Athletes are admired for the sacrifices they make for their sports—they wake up early to go to the gym, they force themselves through painful conditioning, and they spend hours practicing when they could be doing something more...