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April 1986 More than 200 divestment activists erect a shantytown and a symbolic 16-foot ivory tower in the Yard to protest Harvard's investment in companies related to South Africa...
...installing the statue was far from easy, said Wendy Kondo, the sculpture's designer, who said Harvard RealEstate had to get a variance from the CambridgeZoning Board before they were allowed to erect thesculpture...
While throwing sandbag on top of sandbag on top of sandbag to erect makeshift barriers against the water, some people nonetheless wondered what could be done with all that sand -- or, for that matter, the bags -- once the waters subside. The Army Corps of Engineers calculates that it has distributed 26.5 million bags through the flood area, and each has been filled with roughly 35 lbs. of sand; they can't just be left in piles all over the place...
There is no such thing as an inherently bias-free standard of academic achievement. Every standard we erect will reflect some particular set of values and criteria which is shared by some groups and not by others...
...determined to highlight her stance as an individual, Brown pointedly refuses to accept the usual burden of political correctness that comes with being a "gay author." With enormous relish, she has her characters tell stories of sniffing cocaine from an erect black penis ("It doesn't look as good on a white cock.") Nor does Venus shy away from the reputation of promiscuity enjoyed by the gay community. As she tells Frazier: "We shared our bodies. We gloried in the experience. I go my way and you go yours far richer than before we met. If I sleep with someone...