Word: dinner
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...more blatant example took place at the beginning of the year, when Asian-American organizations from Harvard and Wellesley co-sponsored a Blind Date Banquet, pairing students from each school for an evening of dinner and dancing. Although the banquet was open to members of all groups, few non-Asian students participated. The result was that the event became just another retreat from normal, integrated activity...
...couldn't fit more than six people around the dinner table," Evans says. "But being the governor in Washington, we lived in the governor's mansion, which meant we did an awful lot of entertaining. My wife was a partner in the whole effort...
AFTER an incident of alleged harassment of a homosexual, Defeat Homophobia staged a kiss-in two weeks ago during dinner in the Mather House dining hall. The incident and the kiss-in have provoked widespread debate in Mather House and throughout the Harvard community, which has in fact proved what Defeat Homophobia expected it would--that a great deal of prejudice against homosexuals exists on this campus...
Only last December, prominent Mexican stockbroker Eduardo Legorreta Chauvert was an honored dinner guest of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. But these days Legorreta is a guest of the Reclusorio Oriente jail in Mexico City, where he has been held without bail since Feb. 14 on charges that he traded in bogus government treasury certificates, as well as other allegations of securities fraud. Legorreta, chairman of the go-go brokerage firm Operadora de Bolsa, is the government's biggest catch in a long-awaited crackdown on irregularities in the Mexican stock exchange, La Bolsa...
Five days later, a group of gay men and lesbian women interrupted dinner in the Mather dining hall. They announced that they had come to protest homophobia and explained that their action was a result of Sunday night's incident. They staged a "Kiss-in," saying that they were pushed to action by the abuse which the said Mather senior had faced the previous Sunday...