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...said publicly that he is not in favor of same-sex marriage. However, McCarthy said he believes that Obama “personally supports” the legalization of gay marriage and that his election was a step forward. Although McCarthy said he finds it “troubling?? that a very slim majority wields so much influence on a minority’s rights, he said he is “really optimistic” about the prospect of major social change, especially with regard to the issue of same-sex marriage. “We certainly...
...drawing, or painting of the symbol will constitute a felony. Though New York legislators believe this measure is a necessary response to recent incidents across the state, we find the measure an inherently bad idea. To be sure, the recent rash of harassing noose imagery in New York is troubling??from the letter sent to a black high school teacher in Brooklyn, to the hanging of a noose on a black professor’s door at Teachers College at Columbia University, to its display outside a lower Manhattan post office, and throughout Long Island. Nevertheless, banning...
...hard to know which is more troubling??the magnitude of the sacrifice Bush demands from those deployed, or the blasé serenity he expects from the rest of us. In a recent speech discussing the future of our economy, the president, who was once ridiculed for asking Americans for their “continued confidence and participation in the American economy” in the wake of September 11, again made it clear how he expects the middle class to contribute to our nation’s well-being: “I encourage you to go shopping...
...success, she said they are necessary to prevent leaders from becoming “a couple of guys in a back room,” deciding everything for the country. Fellow Benjamin Ginsberg, who was a counsel for both Bush-Cheney campaigns, said he found it “troubling?? that politicians are forced to resort to campaign tactics to draw the public’s attention away from murder trials and other sensational news. Fellow Martin Frost, a former U.S. Representative, D-Texas, noted the current political polarization. He said that Reagan was the last president truly...
Last week, as hordes of middle-aged men and women descended on the campus for Junior Parents Weekend, searching for Boylston Hall and Henrietta’s Table and the meaning of our college lives, I had a troubling??no, a horrifying—thought...