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I'm not usually a touchy-feely, share-your-emotions, 'Trust the Process' kind of guy. I'm a philosophy professor. I revel in cold, hard logic. So it was with some trepidation that I signed up as a faculty member for Campus Pride's annual summer Leadership Camp-which, since it was mostly run by lesbians, student-activities directors, and lesbian student-activities directors, promised to involve a lot more 'processing' than I'm normally comfortable with. To me, 'faculty member' normally means strolling into a lecture hall a few times a week, speaking, answering questions, and then retreating to my office while TA's keep students at a safe distance. Here, it meant being a full-time camp counselor, den monitor, relationship-advice provider, and taskmaster. (Faculty are volunteers who pledge to raise money to support Camp; students' tuition is subsidized by donations.) To me, 'camp' normally means archery, canoeing, bonfires, and so on. Here, it meant six straight days of workshops-on subje

The initiative is a sign of heightened scrutiny by financial regulators on both sides of the Atlantic, as competition between trading venues and the rise of sophisticated electronic trading raise questions over how market structures may be changing

Serious questions have arisen over the sinking of a cargo ship off the Cape coast.

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