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...might be stereotyped or sneered at, there are real consequences to coming out as gay, bisexual, lesbian or transgendered that do not accompany openly discussing conservative political beliefs. Queer youth are thrown out by their parents; they are often forced to live in isolation from families that want no contact with them; and they are at risk of the kind of violence that ended the lives of Matthew Shepard and Rita Hester. "Coming out" as a conservative holds no such risks, and last Thursday's event appropriates that pain without taking responsibility for it. NICOLE L. DEBLOST '99 March...
...case, and OCS isn't just being excessively prompt, departments need to help students get in the game by telling them early on (perhaps even at the end of the fall) to seek topics and advisors. In larger departments where students are less likely to have had personal contact with professors, a clear explanation of the protocol involved in approaching a potential advisor would be particularly useful...
...center functioned as an oil relay station, carrying signals between Iraq and Turkey, and served to maintain contact between branches of the Northern Oil Company...
...about NATO air strikes, charmed the Albanians with the promise of U.S. support and kept her fellow foreign ministers in line by reminding them of their commitment to hit the Serbs hard if negotiations failed. As the day wound down, Albright sat through a tense meeting with the Kosovo "contact group" and grimly repeated America's commitment to bomb Belgrade if necessary. While the delegates sat in an uneasy silence after her pronouncement, the Secretary put up her hand with a final observation. "I just want to say," she cooed, "that it is a great honor being the only woman...
...tale of Turkey's manhunt for Kurdish militant Abdullah Ocalan. The team followed the circuitous path of the "globe-trotting guerrilla" from Syria to Kenya, the site of his capture. Correspondents reported on protests in more than 20 cities, interviewed intelligence sources in four countries and even managed to contact several aides who were with Ocalan during his final hours of freedom. "Our efforts fell under TIME's grand tradition of group journalism," says Sancton, who knows it well, having entered his third decade with the magazine. "That approach has largely been supplanted by a system of individual writers...