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...said that the statue could serve to affirm the religious origins of their college, though he said he recognized that Ignatius of Loyola did not represent the same kind of figurehead as John Harvard does for Harvard...
...wisdom of a constitutional amendment. It tells you something about the local complexities of the gay-marriage issue that Colorado, the home state of both sponsors of the amendment proposal, has a law banning gay marriage but also has three cities--Denver, Aspen and Boulder--where gays can affirm their unions as domestic partners...
...demonstrated worldwide, at least a hundred thousand were on the streets of New York, in a throng that stretched 20 blocks long and three wide. So it’s hard to imagine a sedate response when the entire Republican power structure descends on New York to re-affirm their commitment to four more years of this presidency...
...what my straight friends had found out in their teens. But even then my parents and friends never asked the question they would have asked automatically if I were straight: So, when are you going to get married? When will we be able to celebrate it and affirm it and support it? In fact, no one--no one--has yet asked me that question...
Other astronomers, such as Dr. Joseph Lazio of the Naval Research Laboratory, are more skeptical of the project’s short-term success, but affirm the significance of the study...