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Cavazos said that the magazine and the subsequent campus debate have been a boon for gays at Harvard...
Johnson's promise to become a spokesperson for AIDS awareness could be a boon to the cause, he said...
...this more enlightened age we no longer deny the boon of tears to half our population, nor the joys of honest labor to the other half. Today, doubly reversing Kingsley, women must work -- or else -- and men, far from keeping a stiff upper lip, must "let it all hang out," especially if they hope to get ahead in politics. There are cogent historical precedents...
Predictions of a drought-induced economic disaster are being scaled back, and a few communities may loosen up their water restrictions. But state officials fear that the latest boon from the skies could deflate efforts to overhaul California's outmoded water pricing, distribution and conservation systems. They warn that rainfall and reservoirs still remain at half their normal yearly levels and that the state's five-year drought is not yet over...
...British and French military men couldn't wait to paw over some of the Soviet-supplied Iraqi tanks littering the Kuwaiti desert. They expected the abandoned armor to be a boon for battlefield training and analysis. But many tanks were reduced to smoldering hulks by guided missiles. Others, taken out by A-10 attack planes, at first appear to be in good condition, until survey crews discover a small hole in their exteriors. That hole indicates that shrapnel produced by armor-piercing shells has destroyed everything inside. Although the allies captured thousands of Iraqi tanks, the Americans have found just...