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Sen. Barack Obama waded deep into Clinton territory Thursday evening at a private LGBT fundraiser in New York City where the price of admission was $2,300 per person. Held at the apartment of GLSEN founder and executive director Kevin Jennings and his partner, Jeff Davis, the event drew about 125 people and raised $170,000. No press were admitted, but based on several accounts, attendees were struck by the Illinois senator's candor as well as his fluency with LGBT issues.

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Stephen Chernin for The New York Times The Men 'n Sync team rehearses its competitive synchronized skating routines to music at Wollman Rink in Central Park. Early on a recent Friday morning, as they do every Friday at 6:45, the slender, graceful men in black took to the ice at Wollman Rink in Central Park. Overseen by their coach, Nina Newby, and buoyed by the winter-turns-to-spring weather that had thawed all the ice in the park that is not manufactured, they set about practicing their sport, a combination chorus line and ice dance. Traveling the ice linked in various arm...