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...were to be politically correct and not propound a position, we would be virtually voiceless during a time when the Cuban-American voice is very significant," he and his CAUSA co-president Juan Carlos Rasco wrote in an e-mail message to the CAUSA mailing list...

Author: By Heather B. Long, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cuban Americans Divided Over Elian | 4/28/2000 | See Source »

...Election committees today struggle to attract a politically correct pool of candidates. Minturn insists, “there are plenty of people who are eager to enjoy a great meal and good conversation.” The difficulty, though, lies in diversifying their membership. “There just are not too many takers,” says one club member, who asked not to be named, “but it’s understandable. If you were black, you wouldn’t want to stick out like a sore thumb. My instinct is that the Somerset would...

Author: By Samuel Hornblower, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The Old Boys' Clubs | 4/27/2000 | See Source »

...Perspective, Mike A. Hill '01, chair of the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters' Alliance (BGLTSA), is quoted as asking "aren't both marriages and 'domestic partnerships' merely public, social affirmations of the loving relationships between two people? Yes. So why bother with the differing terminology?" Hill is correct that civil unions are not marriage--but they are the closest thing anywhere in the country. And eventually, maybe not tomorrow, maybe not next week, civil unions will lead to gay marriage...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, | Title: Heroes of the Green Mountain State | 4/27/2000 | See Source »

...conclusions may be drawn from this story, and both are correct. The fields of asphalt that ordinarily occupy the center of Paris may be called Elysian, but the name is simply a gloss, or an apology, applied to something that is nothing like Eden. Cities tend to create such places (find the tulips in New York City's Madison Square Garden) as a sort of nostalgic glance at the rural world they supplanted. If the farmers had not carted their bucolic protest to Paris on that day, the citizens there, like people in cities everywhere else, would have continued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All The Days Of The Earth | 4/26/2000 | See Source »

...this a bear market? It may be, and it may be all but over already. With information so quickly and extensively disseminated via the Internet, and with the low cost of trading, rapid market moves have become common. The time it takes to correct market excesses has condensed. So bear markets end as quickly as they start, and soon stock prices are on firm footing again. In fact, Wall Street hasn't witnessed a drawn-out bloodletting since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look Out Below | 4/24/2000 | See Source »

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