Word: eventer
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...cooking demonstration and book-signing event Tuesday at the Harvard Coop Bookstore, Starza Kolman and Marta Holmberg, who are involved in PETA’s youth division, prepared three of their favorite dishes from the cookbook: Seven-Layer Mexican Dip, Silence of the Lambs Shepherd’s Pie, and Boozy Beer Bread. They offered a sampling of each dish to the audience and shared their personal experiences on dealing with the difficulties of being vegans in college...
...concern spectators raised during the event was Khazei’s lack of political experience. Colin J. Motley ’10, president of the Harvard Republican Club, said, “people who hold state offices...have a step up” in this type of campaign...
...Iain Dale became the first openly gay Tory candidate to be selected for a winnable seat. (He lost, however, to the incumbent, a Liberal Democrat.) Now a blogger and publisher and hoping for another crack at Parliament, Dale co-hosted the Pride event. In his view, sexual orientation has become "a nonissue in the Conservative Party." He adds, optimistically, that equality will soon be so firmly embedded in the party that "in another 10 to 15 years there will be no need for Pride to make a statement." (Read "British Spies: Licensed...
...grouping in the European Parliament. "Your new Polish allies oppose gay marriage and adoption," read the letter, which demanded that Cameron call upon the Polish party "either to change their views or quit your new European group." Meanwhile, Ben Summerskill, director of the gay-rights group Stonewall, boycotted the event. Demonstrators accosted revelers arriving for the party, and a transvestite dressed as Thatcher invited curious bystanders to a simultaneous and hastily arranged counterevent called Tory Shame...
...international community decides Iran is making an atomic bomb - something IAEA inspections may determine later this month - it would complicate any Venezuelan plans to export uranium to the country, since it would be widely viewed as aiding and abetting a rogue nuclear-weapons program. "In that event, the world is watching whether Venezuela seems poised to cross any international legal boundaries," says Johanna Mendelson Forman, a senior associate for the Americas at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. "But it's still too early to tell what Venezuela is really doing." (Read a story about...