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Last week, I called Margaret and asked how her great-grandson was. She said she had seen him earlier in the week, and that he was "just adorable" (correct great-grandmother intonation is impossible in print) and seemed to be growing up happy and healthy. She said she was even a little jealous of the fathers' relationship with the boy. "When he sees me he cries and wants to go with one of the two daddies," she said...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: A Humanizing Moment | 4/24/2000 | See Source »

...apologize for the harsh way my views were portrayed. However, in the correct context, my quote does reflect my views. While I uphold the Biblical view that homosexuality is sinful, I do not see it as being in any way different from the sin that is evident in my own life. All sin is sick. The quote, as presented, wrongly implies that homosexuality is somehow different from all other sins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 4/21/2000 | See Source »

Saving Fenway Park is moral. Drucker is correct. A new world of Major League Baseball is emerging. Boston society is rearranging itself. But morality implies rightness and wrongness. Saving Fenway Park is moral. Boston might gain the corporate world of MLB, yet lose its very soul. Fenway Park is as Boston as Faneuil Hall. Saving Fenway Park is a family value...

Author: By John Rouse, | Title: Fenway and Family Values | 4/20/2000 | See Source »

This perhaps is one of the reasons why there are so few minorities in the media in general. What writer would want to risk the wrath of politically correct pundits? What writer would want the task of scripting dialogue that has to be completely inoffensive? Seems to me that the attempted censorship of Mister Chu sports its own message of racial intolerance by restricting certain characteristics from Asians. And hey, Mister Chu isn't even a stereotype. After all, he doesn't even know kung...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 4/19/2000 | See Source »

...blame the Army's leadership for the exodus. The surveys found that low-ranking personnel don't feel a sense of loyalty flowing downward from their commanding officers, while most soldiers feel that the Joint Chiefs of Staff have weakened the nation's military by bowing to popular politically correct demands on issues such as promoting women and admitting gays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Without an Enemy, What Makes a Soldier's Heart Sing? | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

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