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...this context that we greet Gaypril, Harvard's gay pride month. Harvard's relatively liberal atmosphere has the tendency to lull gay men and lesbians (and other minorities) into a false sense of security, and as a result, our pride month, like all elements of activism, is relatively muted here. At the same time, if last night's debate over the ROTC is any indication, many will see provocative posters or hear of gay pride events and shake their heads, annoyed at having the homosexual agenda foisted on them by an ultra-liberal elite...
Move toward the center from here and you'll find those who cite pragmatic reasons for "don't ask, don't tell," noting the military's attitude toward sexuality in any context and the particularly uniform environment the armed forces wishes to foster...
Move toward the center from here and you'll find those who cite pragmatic reasons for "don't ask, don't tell," noting the military's attitude toward sexuality in any context and the particularly uniform environment the armed forces wishes to foster...
...went to Yugoslavia a few years ago with Elie Wiesel, whose work repeats what is, in the context of the Holocaust, an unassailable warning: Never forget. Yet now we descended into a place where memory--indignant, obsessive, murderous--is both a way of life and a fatal disease...
...lesson bring to the media's growing centennial curriculum? Press material for The Century implies that it aims to tell the world's story over the past 100 years. That is somewhat misleading. What the documentary does, in fact, is offer a smattering of global drama all in the context of a one-man show--sometimes staid, sometimes engaging--starring Uncle Sam, a character free-thinking, dysfunctional, glorified, triumphant...