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...chief eponym, Abbott Lawrence Lowell—a notorious homophobe and organizer of a secretive court that once expelled eight Harvard students suspected of being gay—still reigned as University president. The proximity of these photos to the hearth of Diana Eck and Dorothy Austin, Harvard’s first openly gay House masters, might seem ironic.Inside the residence, Eck meanders past the big bay windows lining her living room as she tells me how she and her wife “are really just normal people who lead normal lives.” She smiles...
...March 4 to swing the balance of power on the board to the supporters of creationism. "If Huckabee marshals the religious right in Texas, particularly in North Texas, it has profound implications for the state board," says Kathy Miller, executive director of the Texas Freedom Network (TFN), an Austin-based advocacy group whose stated goal is to "counter the religious right" in public policy issues, particularly education...
Bill Clinton's musical days are behind him. Rather, President Clinton is somewhat subdued and yet charming, pleading his wife's case and admitting midway through an hourlong appeal on the University of Texas campus in Austin Wednesday night that "I'm not as good a speaker as I used to be." The line is met with smiles and a little laughter. But the greatest enthusiasm for him comes after the speech as he works the rope lines, taking time to pose and shake hands, his aides collecting posters and papers along the way that will be autographed and returned...
...know him from MTV," says Laura Hernandez, president of the University Democrats of UT Austin, as she introduces the former President. "We know him from playing his saxophone on Arsenio. He is the first rock star President of this country." Certainly Clinton is greeted like a rock star by the mostly student crowd as he moves down the ramp from Main Hall to a podium on the mall in the heart of the campus. Flash bulbs go off, camera phones are lifted high and U2 blasts over the speakers...
...there is an indication of how those caucuses might go, it is on the periphery of the crowd. As Bill Clinton works the rope line, longtime Austin Democratic activist Glenn Maxey is passing out his campaign flyers to people as they leave. A former state representative and the first openly gay member of the Texas Legislature, Maxey is running for county tax collector. Tonight he has passed out some 3,000 flyers. At the Obama rally six days ago he had given out 5,000 and ran out of them. Running an "insurgent" campaign against a longtime incumbent...