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Upping the Ante
I was in Spanish class when the note came. It was a small piece of memo pad paper with an office staffer's handwriting on it....
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Let Catholics Discriminate
As laws protecting gay Americans from discrimination proliferate, they increasingly conflict with important liberties. The latest example of this clash comes from Massachusetts, where the...
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Sudden Departure
Whenever my phone rings and I see my parents' number in the little window, my first thought is always that my grandmother died. She's very...
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FAIR's Fair?
Much of the reaction to the Supreme Court's 8-0 decision in Rumsfeld v. FAIR to uphold the Solomon Amendment has been ill-informed. Commentators, especially in...
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Learning Lessons
Though much will be made of it, the federal Marriage Protection Amendment (MPA) is unlikely to be the most important story of the marriage fight...
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Doggie Style
From the start, the dog was unruffled, collected and mature. She quietly waited for her two new owners to stop yelping and jumping on the...
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Run baby, run!
Running laps around the football field in high school phys. ed. was just not for me. I did it because it was required and I...
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The Cost of 'Don't Ask Don't Tell'
A new study from the University of California estimates the financial costs of the military's ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' policy, under which more than 10,000...
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That Sinking Feeling
In the end, it came down to plumber's putty. OK, not really ''in the end.'' The end has yet to be reached; I do have...
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Fighting the Holy War
Given the poll-driven pieties of so many politicians, it is hard to imagine a public figure quoting Christ's admonition in Matthew Chapter 6 against making...
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Badly Aimed Boycott
In a Jan. 9 email to members of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission's International Advisory Committee, IGLHRC Executive Director Paula Ettelbrick and...
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That Time of Year Again
Dear friends, family, assorted acquaintances: Happy holidays! Wow, can you believe 2005 is almost over? It seems like Christmas 2004 just ended and here we...
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Oppose Alito?
The analysis of Supreme Court confirmation hearings has become the post-Cold War equivalent of Kremlinology, the study of Soviet behavior relying on exquisitely subtle clues...
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Human Nature
The issue of what to do for New Year's Eve is just about here again. As usual, I've got zilch for ideas and, like many...
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Drama Queen
I have a weakness -- well, it's one of many, of course. But this one is particularly vile and causes me special shame when I...
