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Is Kagan Gay? It's All the Talk, and That's a Shame
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyLet's face it. To the world at large, being gay is a terrible thing to be. People whisper the word, gossip about it, trade in innuendos about it, as if being gay were a crime. That brings us to Elena Kagan. Here she is: a brilliant, accomplished, fabulously successful lawyer and professor, dean of the Ivies, academic par excellence, and a good-time gal, a former smoker who plays poker and can swing a bat. She's a New Yorker, a child of the Upper West Side of Manhattan, dutiful daughter of dutiful liberal parents, and soon-to-be Supreme Court justice. Who could ask for anything more? Well, ...
'Young Elian' Shown in Communist Uniform
By David Knowles - AOL News(April 5) -- Now 16 years old, Elian Gonzalez remains a potent symbol of the often-acrimonious relations between the United States and Cuba -- something that newly released photos of Elian wearing the militaristic uniform of the Young Communist Union will do nothing to change. Posted Monday on a Cuban government Web site, the pictures offer a rare look at Elian, who has not been seen much by American audiences in the years since gun-toting agents from the Immigration and Naturalization Service swooped in on the Miami home where the then-6-year-old boy was living and returned him to his ...
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