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WASHINGTON: The Senate is in an uproar over Trent Lott's comments Monday that homosexuality, far from being biological, "is a problem... just like alcohol." But don't expect Lott to recant...
...Sidney Blumenthal called Whitewater prosecutor Hickman Ewing a "religious fanatic"--Ewing's sins against secularism include daily prayer, membership in a Fundamentalist church and a sincere belief in God--it caused barely a ripple. Blumenthal did apologize following a bit of Republican grumbling, but there was nothing like the uproar that routinely accompanies a public insult regarding, say, race or gender or sexual orientation. Indeed, the question of Ewing's alleged fanaticism so pricked the interest of the New York Times, zeitgeist arbiter of the Establishment, that it dispatched a reporter to investigate. The result is hilarious: a classic...
There was an uproar as I entered the common room, where we boys were supplied with the daily newspapers...
...uproar caused by the regents' actionpersuaded Connerly to accept what he saw as a moreimportant task: to end affirmative action in allstate hiring and promoting...
...March to a Washington bookstore; its sales records show that Lewinsky purchased a copy of Vox, Nicholson Baker's postmodern novel about yuppie phone sex. To Starr the move was routine evidence gathering, the authentication of a small detail in Lewinsky's story. But the subpoena caused an uproar among booksellers and free-speech groups. Author Baker charged that Starr was "undermining the Constitution" and demanded that he "get down on his knee pads and beg the country's pardon...