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...rally, the council will demand that Rudenstine formally affirm the University's opposition to the ban on gays in the military, said Andrew Greenspan, a medical student on the council...

Author: By Wendy M. Seltzer, | Title: Students Petition On Powell | 4/20/1993 | See Source »

...writing to urge all of you who are gay or lesbian or not yet out to take the opportunity of BGLAD days, or any opportunity, to do something to affirm your sexuality. Go to a BGLSA dance or to a gay bar in Boston. (They don't card.) Stay just five minutes, if that's all you can handle. Or visit Glad Day, the large and excellent bookstore at 673 Boylston St. in Boston, on the second floor. Though you will probably be scared to death at first, you cannot imagine how exhilarating it is to see other...

Author: By John T. Patterson, | Title: Coming Out: The Only Chance | 4/16/1993 | See Source »

...writing to urge all of you who are gay or lesbian to do something to affirm your sexuality...

Author: By John T. Patterson, | Title: Coming Out: The Only Chance | 4/16/1993 | See Source »

...purpose of Westminster's original policy was to affirm and perpetuate the unity of the school's educational mission with its spiritual mission. For Westminster officials, Christianity was not, as it is at secular schools like Harvard, an extracurricular activity, a separate department, or an object of merely sociological interest...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, | Title: Respecting Good Fences | 3/23/1993 | See Source »

...birth, Bill Clinton was William Jefferson Blythe, his father being a young salesman named William Jefferson Blythe 3rd, who died in a car accident before Bill was born. In a story now familiar, the 15-year-old future President legally changed his name to Bill Clinton in order to affirm family solidarity with his mother and stepfather, Roger Clinton. In 1975, when Bill Clinton got married, his new wife chose to keep the name Hillary Rodham. But five years later, Clinton was defeated in a run for re-election as Arkansas Governor, at which point, to assert a more conventional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Strange Burden of a Name | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

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