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...surveys and legislative record fall short of accurately conveying the extent to which gay and lesbian persons are marginalized from mainstream American dialogue and culture. In most of this country, gay and lesbian persons cannot go on a date without reaping weird looks or even harsh words. And woe to the homosexual adolescent who risks being thrown out of the house in coming out to his parents...
...world is not an equal place. And woe to me if I ever thought that financial aid would be the great equalizer. But financial aid must be reserved for those students who simply do not have the means to pay for their educations. Because chances are, those who would qualify for merit-based scholarships have from a young age had the advantages of money, time and encouragement invested into their human capital. And because funding is limited, we should reserve it for those who need it most--those who perhaps never before had the opportunity to attain this so-called...
...equally uplifting, while his students are more often than not downright cute (case in point, the Pee-Wee song: "I'm a Pee Wee / You're a Boo Boo / Get the heck out of here"). In spite of the flaws present in his approach or the occasional Elijian woe-is-me depression, Kohl's enthusiasm and unbroken spirit motivate and inspire, giving a bright point of light in the oft-maligned field of teachers and public education...
...WOE PMS may be a biological problem, not an emotional one. Doctors think estrogen and progesterone levels are normal in women with bad PMS, but that something--perhaps in the brain--is reacting to the hormones abnormally...
...crowd rush collapsed the plainly insufficient band cage. The crowd--a mixture of 12-year-olds impersonating 15-year-olds, 15-year-olds imitating 21-year-olds and the walking braindead successfully being themselves--moaned and groaned at the subsequent 45-minute delay as a new cage was assembled. Woe betide the band that starts a concert thus; momentum at this point would have seemed a foreign country with heavily armed, very mustachioed and very grouchy customs officers...