Word: winging
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Representative Barney Frank '61 (D-Mass.) spoke about impeachment, the influence of the right wing, the importance of voting, and gay rights to a crowd of about 150 students at Harvard Law School's Austin Hall yesterday afternoon...
...course, not all Republicans are homophobes. Yet it is profoundly disturbing that the party's leadership has so proudly stood up for its least tolerant and most hateful wing. And the party's homophobia runs deep. Wyoming, in fact, is one of 10 states lacking specific legislation against hate crimes--legislation that would acknowledge the fact that such crimes have more victims and greater, more painful consequences for society...
Brazilians amended their constitution in 1997 to allow President Fernando Henrique Cardoso to seek a second term in last Sunday's election. Cardoso, 67, a left-wing academic turned free marketer, has stamped out hyperinflation and given many of his 165 million countrymen their first real faith in democracy, capitalism and Brazil's titanic potential. Another four years, they hoped, would complete the dream. But now they'll need Cardoso's leadership just to stop the country's sudden nightmare of recession, unemployment and staggering deficits...
Change is on the way for Quad Sound Studios. Hidden beneath the Holmes wing of Pforzheimer House, the underground studio where the music of aspiring performing artists flows through pipes inside the walls may soon have new equipment thanks to the efforts of sound studio engineers...
...deal with him. Naming Ariel Sharon as foreign minister Friday might look like an act of provocation to the Palestinians, who hold him responsible for more than one massacre over the years, but it could advance the peace process. "Netanyahu is doing this to calm the Israeli right wing," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "The right wing sees him as the staunchest guardian of their interests, and he can bring them on board for Netanyahu's plan to give away another chunk of the West Bank...