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Silencing chants of “now it’s fair” emanating from the Harvard student section, the Catamounts buried two goals in 29 seconds to pull within...
...difference in the marital status of the Cheney daughters has myriad other consequences--Section 879 of Title 18 is just one of the 1,138 federal laws that apply to Americans who are married. Taken together, these statutes offer substantial lucre to anyone who weds. For instance, the law allows Phil to give his wife Liz all the money he wants, tax free--even if the money is part of a divorce settlement. But gays who get gifts from their partners (or exes) must pay taxes on the goods as though the partners were mere acquaintances. This disparity is most...
Title 18 of the United States Code, Section 879 makes it illegal to threaten certain individuals guarded by the Secret Service, including the President, the Vice President and their families. At first blush, you wouldn't think the statute has anything to do with the war over gay marriage. But consider this: that law makes it a federal crime to threaten the husband of Elizabeth Cheney, one of the Vice President's daughters. But it does not outlaw threats against the lesbian partner of Mary Cheney, his younger daughter. Legally speaking, Mary's partner is not a member...
Leaving out the low end, naturally, was a wise move for a band whose best trait has always been its lightning quick rhythm section, and now that it’s all smoky drum machines and forest imagery, shit’s just so much fun you wouldn’t even believe. Indeed, the fastest song on the whole record is “Hold And It Will Happen Anyway” and even that crawls like a dying, epileptic tortoise...
...looked up a few of the studies. In one, former Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences Nalini Ambady asked undergraduate test subjects to fill out CUE Guide questionnaires for several teaching fellows based on 10-second video clips filmed during actual section meetings. To an astonishing degree of accuracy, the subjects’ scores matched those that the TFs actually got from their real students at the end of a semester. Apparently, it takes real students very little time—seconds, really—to form long-lasting and detailed judgments about their teachers. Psychologists argue that...