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Camping Lessons<br />
• Killers Among Us<br />
• Camping Lessons<br />
• It Isn't Easy Being Green<br />
• Unreal Estate<br />
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW<br />
QUESTIONS FOR JAMES DALE<br />
Camping Lessons<br />
• <strong>The</strong> Slacker Temp<br />
• Plainspeak<br />
• What <strong>The</strong>y Were Thinking<br />
<strong>The</strong> man who successfully sued the Boy Scouts of America for<br />
discriminating against homosexuals talks about getting on with<br />
his life and the importance of staying earnest. By DAVID RAKOFF<br />
: When you were a kid, did<br />
friends ever give you what on<br />
"Leave It to Beaver" they might<br />
call "the business" for being a Scout?<br />
Like jive for it? Yeah. It loses<br />
coolness the older you get. And it's<br />
one thing to be in the Scout uniform in<br />
the confines of the Scout camp or a<br />
meeting. But then to sort of go out<br />
walking down the street beforehand,<br />
shopping, that was a little . . . actually,<br />
the second troop I was in, the<br />
Scoutmaster just thought, "What's the<br />
point of these uniforms?" I was happy<br />
to not have to put on the uniform,<br />
which was a cotton-poly blend.<br />
That's why I got my "Je Parle<br />
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White Oleander<br />
by Janet Fitch<br />
<strong>The</strong> Testament<br />
by John Grisham<br />
Business @ the Speed of<br />
Thought<br />
by Bill Gates<br />
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff<br />
by Richard Carlson, Ph.D.
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