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...California, which had granted its gay and lesbian citizens an extensive array of domestic partnership rights, voters early this month approved a measure re-emphasizing existing state law that holds marriage to be between a man and a woman...
This rule raises a remarkable and baffling array of questions and problems. How does one exactly enforce the limit? Do wandering proctors and administrators periodically stop by dorms, notebook in hand, poking around for cans and bottles? Perhaps a team of forensic experts who can determine whether the slew empty cans on the floor are evidence of recent infractions or a casual approach to cleaning...
Moreover, having beer cans as the standard unit for measurement raises an array of problems. The student government must work to develop a system of conversion where other spirituous liquors are pegged to cans of beer, just like currency exchange rates. A bottle of red wine would equal however many cans of beer, a bottle of port somewhat more and a bottle of bourbon would equal quite a few. University officials could carry the exchange rates on a convenient laminated card and rapidly work out whether a room owning a half bottle of amontillado, a third of a liter...
...surprising move in today's financial climate, says TIME financial writer Bernard Baumohl. "The retail side of things has always been the least profitable aspect of banking, because you have to lease property and pay tellers." Traditional banks have also been losing individual customers to an ever-widening array of brokerage houses and online banks. By adopting an institutional angle, Deutsche Bank AG will be able to overlook those market risks - but where will their individual customers go to do their everyday banking? If Germany follows U.S. banking trends, says Baumohl, there will be a bunch of community banks jumping...
...Broadway showmen. In an odd coincidence, The Wild Party is the source and identical title for two musicals opening on the New York City stage only weeks apart. Both follow March's story of Queenie and her abusive boyfriend Burrs, who throw a party that attracts an array of Roaring Twenties types and ends in violence. In the depleted world of Broadway musicals--where only three new shows with an original book and score opened last season--the idea of two based on the very same 70-year-old work is pretty wild in itself...