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...main part one’s sense of self,’ and often these students end up feeling a lack of community connection.”A HOUSE DIVIDEDBut even within the “ins,” the LGBT community seems to be bifurcating between the civil rights activists chiefly concerned with broader world and those who keep their eye trained primarily on Harvard. Before the early 1980s, when gay rights at Harvard gained momentum, a small, all-male, all-white social group called the Gay Students Association (GSA) existed, unrecognized by the College, in relative anonymity...
...long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right," wrote Thomas Paine when he called for civil disobedience against monarchy - the flawed national policy of his day. In a similar spirit, we offer a small idea that is, perhaps, no small idea. It will not solve the drug problem, nor will it heal all civic wounds. It does not yet address questions of how the resources spent warring with our poor over drug use might be better spent on treatment or education or job training, or anything else that might begin to restore...
Lebanon may be on the brink of another ruinous civil war, but for the country's basketball fans, there are more important things to worry about. Forget the office pools and the social networking for big-game tickets so common in the U.S., particularly during "March Madness"; such is the passion of the Lebanese fans that at their games, riot police and the occasional armored personnel carrier are as common a sight as cheerleaders...
...facing an ownership crisis in broadcast television. People of color make up 33 percent of our population but own just three percent of all broadcast TV stations—and research shows that the number of owners is plummeting at alarming levels. Despite repeated requests from more than 20 civil rights organizations, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has placed the future of media diversity in greater jeopardy by asking programmers of color to take a back seat to his favored special interests...
...Indeed, in the hours preceding the FCC vote, Martin blithely acknowledged that the new rule would make it harder for people of color and women to own broadcast stations. Martin has also been the subject of widespread criticism from the civil rights community for other efforts that would hamper African-American television programmers such as a la carte pricing and his campaign to award large swaths of cable channel space to incumbent broadcasters at the potential expense of programmers of color. The civil rights community accused the FCC and its chairman of aping an “anti-diversity agenda...