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According to Tandon, the SAA has always provided guidance and financial assistance to its sub-groups for journal publications and advertising. But with the recent growth of these groups, most notably the South Asian Men’s Collective, miscommunications have been on the rise, said co-president emeritus Prital S. Kadakia...
...Spain's parliament approved the first reading of a measure to legalize same-sex marriages. The bill, sponsored by the ruling Socialist party and almost certain to become law in time for Gay Pride day in June, has infuriated Spain's Catholic leaders. Ricard María Cardinal Carles, Emeritus Archbishop of Barcelona, who supports the church's prohibition of homosexuality, says that "to obey the law over conscience takes us back to Auschwitz." Conservative mayors say they will refuse to marry gays, despite their legal obligation to do so if the law passes. Lluís Caldentey, the mayor...
...PETA [People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals] functions, and they’ve done great things for animal welfare, but not all their tactics are approved by the general public,” said Jeffrey A. Barnet ’06, president emeritus of the group. “As opposed to making a joke of it, we felt that education and volunteer work would be a much better forum for an undergraduate group...
...Euromissile debate, Moscow rolled out accusations of West German "revanchism," a reference to Nazi territorial ambitions of old. Kohl's attempts at burnishing national symbols have also met with limited success: West Germans still do less anthem singing and flag flying than their neighbors. Says Hans Mayer, professor emeritus of literature at Tbingen University: "Hitler's nationalism so upset the stomachs of the Germans, particularly the older ones, that they are now keeping to a very strict diet. The only time they break it is for a German soccer team...
DIED. Simon Kuznets, 84, Ukrainian-born economist, statistician and professor emeritus at Harvard, who won the 1971 Nobel Prize for his development in the 1930s of the first sophisticated system for measuring the gross national product, the now indispensable means for gauging comparative economic activity and income distribution by computing the total value of each nation's goods and services; in Cambridge, Mass...