Word: defenders
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...stands, you have chosen to attack our defense of the dignity of gay people and converted it into a half-baked scheme of advocacy of bathroom sex. Your editorial closes by calling bathroom sex "a practice very few people can defend." It effectively deploys society's fear and loathing of public sex (a fear to which I, too, must admit) with paternalistic censure and issues a warning to gays: keep your mouths shut or we won't give you your "much-deserved" rights...
...must defend hateful people's right to be hateful," said U.S. Representative Barney Frank '61 (D-Mass.) in a speech at the Law School yesterday, provoking heated response from his listeners...
...they also reveal that campus gay activists damage their efforts to win much-deserved support when they attempt to protect sex in the Science Center bathroom, a practice very few people can defend...
...Azerbaijan? Actually there are few Armenians and Azerbaijanis among the troops there. In Nagorno-Karabakh it wasn't just a question of not using Azerbaijani soldiers, but Uzbeks, Tadahiks, Chechens -- any of the Muslim peoples. They were viewed with mistrust by Armenians, who feared that these soldiers would always defend the Azerbaijanis. We tried to see that boys of Slavic extraction, from Russia, the Ukraine or Belorussia, served in Nagorno-Karabakh. Many former soldiers have taken sides, and some of them have served in Afghanistan. Not only enlisted men but also officers who once held the rank of lieutenant colonel...
That, says Bucharest lawyer Nicu Teodorescu, 57, is not quite how it happened. Teodorescu, who claims he was called in at the last minute to defend the Ceausescus, told the London Times last week that the end was considerably less dramatic, if no tidier. After the trial, during which they refused to cooperate (Teodorescu tried unsuccessfully to persuade them to plead mental instability), the Ceausescus were taken into the courtyard. "It was a mere quarter-hour or so after the death sentence was pronounced," he says. "They thought they were walking to a cell, when suddenly there was a huge...