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...homophobia, heterosexism, and transphobia are still very much a fact of life here. Many queer students are still expected to explain or defend their identities and decisions, there are queer students who continue to find Harvard an inhospitable place to come out, people’s sexual and gender identities still serve as a basis for prejudice, and anti-queer acts of violence occur. Moreover, some social circles are considerably less accepting than others. Despite all of the progress Harvard has made, we can still make the University a better place for queer students, faculty, and staff...
Thousands of pages of political science literature have tracked the trend away from a class-based party system, in which the working and middle class would unite to defend the New Deal and defeat rich Republicans. Even 20 years ago, who would have believed that Democratic candidates can now regularly count on winning Beverly Hills, while Republicans are a lock in Appalachia...
...They were very good at getting open in the eight,” Sproul said. “They had a lot of goals that were just pass-pass-pass-shoot, and it was harder for us to defend that...
Last week, a group of graduate students circulated a petition calling for his resignation for his reluctance to defend Columbia professors...
...Fonda started feeling "an opening to the presence of the Almighty." She did not tell Turner (who once famously remarked, "Christianity is a religion for losers") because she feared he would have talked her out of it. "And he could have," she says. "I'm still not ready to defend it or analyze it or anything, but I have become moved by it, fascinated by it and helped by it--and I'm not even sure what it is. But I am humming with reverence and going at it in my usual full-bore...