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Where I grew up, the issue of whether gays and lesbians made OK parents was a non-starter. In the liberal enclave of Berkeley, Calif., the answer is considered so obvious the question almost seems rhetorical: Of course there are both "good" and "bad" homosexual parents -- just as there are both "good" and "bad" heterosexual parents.

Forty years ago, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon.

Clark University President John Bassett will become the next president of Heritage University in Toppenish, Wash., following his retirement from Clark in July, he announced today.

Jason La Mountain is originally from New York City, but he moved to Worcester in 2002 to attend Clark University.

So many gay couples today have kids that it has become a cultural phenomenon - there's even a new TV show about a modern family that includes a gay couple with an adopted baby.

It will be interesting to see whether the Roberts court invigorates the left as the Warren court did the right.

The U.S. National Mediation Board has proposed a sweeping rule change that would base the outcome of union elections at airlines and rail companies on the majority approval of people who vote, a move that could increase the odds of unions winning such contests.

In 1921, when he was six years old, Souren Antoyan was sent from his occupied homeland of Armenia to spend the next eight years in orphanages, including the Australian-run Ghazir Orphanage, in Beirut.

Clark University Graduate School of Management has leased 8,470 square feet for its satellite campus at 333 Turnpike Road in Southborough.

Ford Motor Co. hourly employees at three more factories rejected union contract concessions, dimming the automakera s prospects for winning the givebacks granted to U.S. competitors.

On Campus Submitted by Nell Strizich on 2009-10-29.   Clark University student Miranda J. Muro, of Bolton, was presented with the Thomas J. '56 and Barbara J. Lindblom '56 2009 Anton Endowed Prize during a dinner honoring student scholars on Sept.

Adi Tibrewal plays a good game of tennis, but he was unprepared for the volleys launched at him and his new wife when they moved to the Montvale Historic District.

Tuesday, 27 October 2009, 2:22 pm Press Release: Victoria University of Wellington A printable flyer advertising this event is at http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/ce301009.pdf Militarism and Gender in the Pacific global contexts, feminist questions and analysis -- a public lecture by Professor Cynthia Enloe of Clark University, Massachusetts.

Worcester's Ward 3, Precinct 2 , Ward 6, Precinct 4 and Ward 8, Precinct 3 are notorious for paltry voter turnouts in municipal elections.

Uncertainty and tension reign." - UN IRIN News, Oct. 21, 2009 With ECOWAS in the lead, the African Union and the United Nations have joined to condemn the military junta in Guinea , supporting a commission of inquiry into the latest violence and calling for an arms embargo.

Nuclea Bioechnologies, based in Pittsfield and Worcester, closed out a $3.4 million equity deal originally announced in June with an investment by New York-based Private Equity Investors Inc., according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Michael Addis and Terry Bradshaw recently led a discussion entitled "Men and Depression: Overcoming the Stigma and Creating Positive Change." Addis, a professor in the Hiatt School of Psychology at Clark University, is an expert on men's mental health and the lead investigator of the Research Group on Men's Well-Being. The author of more than 60 ...

Edward J. Ottensmeyer will resign as dean of Clark University's Graduate School of Management at the end of the 2009-10 school year.

Clark University 's investment portfolio shrank by 25 percent to $240.1 million during the fiscal year that ended May 31, the school recently disclosed to bondholders.

While Quinn Glover sits in jail awaiting trial in connection with the murder of Kimberly Cates of Mont Vernon, his older brother, Ross, is struggling to find the money he needs to stay in college.