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Gay History Book Goes Forward--Minus One Essay

The Haworth Press has announced that it will proceed with publishing Same-Sex Desire and Love in Greco-Roman Antiquity and in the Classical Tradition of the West, but without one essay that had been planned. Haworth had called off publication because of criticism of that an essay, “Pederasty: An Integration of Cross-Cultural, Cross-Species, and Empirical Data,” could be viewed as endorsing sex between adults and adolescents. The Haworth announcement said that a future volume would deal with the issues raised by that essay.

Seven members of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity at Minnesota State University at Moorhead face felony charges for their role in a party at which a sophomore drank heavily, apparently leading him to get lost and to drown in the Red River, The Minneapolis Star Tribunereported.
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