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Karen Kunz and Angela French had both been married once before, to men. Last month, after running the Boston Marathon, Kunz, 45, a nurse from Chandler, Ariz., and French, 42, a graduate student, made a symbolic pilgrimage to Vermont to wed each other. Tears streaming down their faces, the women, who have known each other for 18 years, exchanged rings; the Rev. Peter Denny proclaimed their union "the equivalent of marriage." That may be true in Vermont, but Arizona, where Kunz and French live with their nine-year-old daughter, doesn't recognize same-sex unions. They made the trip...
...year ago, Vermont became the first state in the nation to recognize civil unions between two people of the same sex: marriages in virtually every legal respect but name. Kunz and French are among the 3,000 gays and lesbians who have come to Vermont since then to tie the knot. When the law was adopted, Vermont became the focus of a national debate over gay marriage. Opponents warned that it would become "a gay state" and that same-sex marriage would sweep the country as homosexuals in other states demanded the same rights...
This amounts to a golden protection policy for the first couple seeds in the tournament. Vermont became the first team in the ten-team qualification format to knock off a No. 1 seed this year in the first round by eliminating Clarkson. How much less of a chance would Brown have? How embarrassing will it be for the league to trot out its doormats as “playoff-ready” teams...
...weeks for that," says teacher Steffany LaBree. A U.S. history teacher doesn't assign research papers because they don't help him prepare students for state-mandated tests. The town's educators say they don't oppose accountability. Many of them prefer the method adopted by states such as Vermont, in which independent reviewers assess portfolios of student work. Many educators also oppose harsh consequences for schools that fail to meet state targets. But Mike Ward, state superintendent of public instruction, responds that "without consequences, there aren't assurances that the curriculum has been delivered...
Maria Trumpler, a dean at Middlebury College in Vermont, will take over as the new senior tutor of Quincy House this fall, College officials announced yesterday...