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...liberal cause, an anti-establishment viewpoint and in-your-face protest tactics: Sounds like Harvard's recipe for a good time. However, the participation of Harvard students in yesterday's "festivities" was sorely missed. Despite e-mails sent by organizers to campus activist groups, there was little response from the campus community...
...Women in the Seneca] don't want to be involved in an overtly activist group, but know there is something very wrong going on at Harvard," she writes in an e-mail message. "The Seneca's a great outlet for women who don't want to be involved in activism...
...activist attorneys say the presence of a few gays wouldn't keep Scout officials from maintaining anti-gay views, since the vast majority of scouting activities never involve discussions of sexuality or politics. They say the issue isn't so much a group's right to exclusivity--no one is arguing that the Ku Klux Klan must admit Jews--as it is whether a group like the Boy Scouts, which generally welcomes every boy, can claim that being anti-gay is part of its core values. (As a practical matter, the N.A.A.C.P isn't worried: it has filed a brief...
Today the crux of the Scouts' case against Dale is that he is a "gay-rights activist" who won't be able to "communicate scouting's moral values." In fact, it's difficult to imagine Dale sleeping in a tent at all these days, much less inveighing against gays around a campfire. Last summer, before his lawyers made him stop talking to reporters on the record, Dale joked with one that he was happy not to have to wear the uniform, "a cotton-poly blend." He lives in lower Manhattan and works as ad director of POZ, a magazine about...
...their collaboration won a Grammy), singing for President John F. Kennedy (she performed the same night in 1962 that Marilyn Monroe cooed Happy Birthday) and touring with Paul Simon. Her personal life was sometimes tumultuous--she's been married to South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela and American black-power activist Stokely Carmichael. Now single, she laughs and says she is "too old to marry again." In 1990, after Nelson Mandela's release from prison, Makeba returned to South Africa. On Homeland Makeba's music sounds timeless and tireless. The succulent African pop songs are in English and in Xhosa (Makeba...