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This is not a call for mere sensitivity, for pity, pieties, or political correctness. But some basic decency and a new openness towards all our fellow students would be nice. That, and a bold challenge to the class hierarchies still alive and well on our fair campus...
...groups like GLSEN. One of the savviest new efforts is called Inqueery (slogan: "Think for yourself"). Founded by a shaggy-haired 26-year-old named Chad Thompson, inqueery.com looks at first like a site designed to bolster proudly gay teens. Pink borders surround pictures of stylish kids, and bold text reads, "Addressing LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered] Issues on High School & College Campuses." Thompson, who realized in fourth grade that he was attracted to boys, remembers hurtful anti-gay jokes, and he is convincing when he denounces such bias. "The Christian church has a sordid history--a history...
...Homi Bhabha brings to the Humanities Center...a keen eye for cultural and political questions that spill across academic disciplines,” Sandel said. “His bold and generous vision of the humanities is sure to attract colleagues from across the University into lively and unexpected intellectual engagements...
...bold and risky move. At a time when the nation has extensive commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan, the White House is pushing the idea of giving the military a more important domestic role. Bush might have chosen a more modest approach like talking up FEMA reforms. But he's gone a much more adventuresome route, one that could well involve revisiting century-old statutes restricting the use of troops at home. To be sure, McClellan indicated that the president is thinking of a lead role for the Department of Defense in disaster relief only when the chaos...
...earliest days of the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe, Americans saw, and certainly heard, the bold and blunt style that had made New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin a popular and effective leader in the Crescent City. Nagin's angry calls to "get off your asses" may have shamed the federal government into action, but many of his broadcasts since then-most notably, his controversial decision to let 180,000 residents and business owners back into New Orleans this week, before the approaching Hurricane Rita led him to reconsider-haven't been as well received. His tall, movie star-handsome swagger seems rattled...