Indeed, pursuant to the compromise wrested from the senior military leadership, the order would allow serving homosexuals to visit gay bars, march in gay parades, read gay literature and display photographs of their homosexual partners.

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In 1948 she left the order and founded her own, dedicated on Franciscan principles to serving the destitute and dying in the slums.

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In order to honor the longest-serving and oldest senator in history, whom Byrd had just replaced, a resolution was offered that created a new position -- president pro tempore emeritus -- for 98 year-old Strom Thurmond, R-South Carolina.

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