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DIED. JOSEPH WOLFSON, 50, legendary surfer who was nicknamed "Dr. 360" after being the first boogie boarder to turn full circle while riding a wave; in a car crash; in Los Angeles. Surfers rescued Wolfson in 1998, after the lung-cancer patient left a note onshore with $5,000 for a funeral party and paddled...
Ultimately, of course, the battle for gay marriage has always been about more than winning the second-driver discount at the Avis counter. In fact, the individual who has done most to push same-sex marriage--a brilliant 43-year-old lawyer-activist named Evan Wolfson--doesn't even have a boyfriend. He and the others who brought the marriage lawsuits of the past decade want nothing less than full social equality, total validation--not just the right to inherit a mother-in-law's Cadillac. As Andrew Sullivan, the (also persistently single) intellectual force behind gay marriage, has written...
...more family-name recognition than George W. Bush is going to unpack her carpetbag and spend some time in the Empire State. Hillary will kick off a "summerlong listening tour" of New York on Wednesday at the farm of outgoing senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, according to campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson. "Over the next month Mrs. Clinton will travel throughout the state, meeting with New Yorkers in small groups and listening to them discuss the issues that concern them most...
Today at noon, hundreds of students will pour into the lecture hall at Two Divinity Avenue for Foreign Cultures 56, "Jewish Life on Eastern Europe." Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris estimates over half of the students taking the course are Jewish, prompting the course's nickname, "Jews for Jews...
...some Harvard professors--like Jay M. Harris, Wolfson professor of Jewish studies--question the morality of what they deemed "tantamount to playing...