Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wanting to make a big deal is very often just a mask for not being willing to put oneself and one's privilege on the line for the good of a larger community. But it is that same sacrifice by others that allows us to make the choice of silence. What we do in our bedrooms is private only because others made what they did public, and it is from their sacrifices that our moral obligation arises...
...that gays need to have pride?" one conservative peer once asked me. "I'm not proud to be straight," she observed. Meanwhile, many of my gay friends agree: sexuality is no big deal. There's no reason to politicize it, to make a big deal of it. Enough progress has been made. A good number of gays (myself included) find themselves embarrassed by the camp and flame of gay culture and wish to disavow...
...truth is however, that we must "make a big deal out of it," because we in the gay community at Harvard are as affected by homophobia in Wyoming as gays and lesbians there...
...have total faith in our club to deal with issues of liability and damage," he said...
...true that there is a great deal at stake--it can't be easy to orchestrate the distribution of money, power, tradition and reputation, and it's therefore understandable that negotiations between the two schools have been time-consuming. But it is precisely because there is such a great deal at stake that the negotiations should be made public--and fast. Radcliffe loses credibility every day in the eyes of current undergraduates who will remember the "college" only as an institution in limbo...