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...1980s, you were called a corporate raider. Now you're a shareholder activist. Why do people think about you differently...
...small world of Washington, there are many who have simply come to know a certain candidate personally and feel something akin to a social obligation. Says a high-level Democratic activist: "Your children are in the same school. You see them in nonpolitical circumstances. People wind up making choices that surprise people because of existing loyalties." There's the story of the young ex-Clinton aide who failed to sign on to Clinton's campaign and instead went to work for Senator Joe Biden. Why? Because Biden gave her husband his first job, and she felt...
...former outfielder (not the general manager of the Oakland A's--that's Beane) hit the front pages when he came out in '99, and he has been an outspoken gay-rights activist ever since. He runs a real estate business in Miami Beach with his longtime partner. Showtime is developing a film based on Bean's autobiography...
Thirty years ago, the gay community was fighting (and losing) a real battle in the backyard of every Jewish boy’s grandmother. In June 1977, reacting to a modest gay rights ordinance adopted in Dade County, Florida, former beauty queen and Christian activist Anita Bryant mounted a campaign called, slyly enough, “Save Our Children.” Bryant and her SOC called for the repeal of the ordinance, which was the first in the country to grant protection in housing, public accommodations, and employment to people based on their “affectional or sexual...
...Allston art museum and science complex projects. He also has served on the committee that selected the architectural firm to design the latter. “I would think that would be a very significant conflict of interest,” Allston resident and self-described community activist Tim McHale said in a phone interview yesterday. Last week, a Boston Herald article reported that Krieger, who is also professor of Literature and Arts B-20: “Designing the American City,” was being considered by insiders as a top candidate to fill the role. But while...