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...Denver, Boulder and Aspen, most of whom opposed the amendment, suffer for the attitudes of their neighbors? Tennis ace Martina Navratilova, the resort's most famous bisexual, supports a lawsuit against Amendment 2 but argues that a boycott would hurt local gays as much as the bigot brigade. Wellington Webb, Denver's first black mayor, finds analogy in civil rights history. "When some of us were trying to desegregate the South," he told Arsenio Hall last week, "we went south. We didn't boycott the South...
...really need monarchs in our New World Order? It's a hard question to answer. While the British might appreciate the taxes when the Royal family finally coughs up some dough in April, the sight of Queen Elizabeth in her Wellington boots surveying the fire damage to Windsor Castle wasn't exactly the height of glamor. Is our morale better with royalty, or, in the words of Al Gore, is it time for them to go? Beth L. Pinsker...
...ingrained homophobia and manipulative and false campaigning that the Harvard/Radcliffe Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students Association, in its official capacity as one of the many gay voices on campus, joins with Mayor Sandra Freedman of Tampa, Rep. Sam M. Gibbons of Florida, Gov. Roy Romer of Colorado, Denver Mayor Wellington Webb and Rep. Patricia Schroeder of Colorado in calling for the repeal of Amendment Two and the reinstatement of Florida's anti-discrimination policy...
...evidence centers on sea-plankton remains found in the Transantarctic Mountains at altitudes where no sea should have been. By measuring the age of nearby volcanic ash, a team led by Peter Barrett at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, concluded that the whole area was probably flooded during the mid-Pliocene epoch -- when temperatures were only a few degrees warmer than today...
Peace and U.S. security are inextricably linked to the fate of Russia's political and economic reforms. After the Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815, he described the battle as "the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life." Today President Boris Yeltsin has launched a radical program of economic reforms. Its fate will at best be a near run thing. Just as Wellington's victory determined the course of European history for the 19th century, the outcome of Yeltsin's bold gamble will decisively affect the history of the 21st century...