Word: forcefullness
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Board members say that BGLTSA leaders typically have more forceful ideological commitments on issues surrounding gay life at Harvard than the gay community at large. The most interested become the most involved.
The point of this tag-team effort? To persuade Clinton to support an easing of U.N. sanctions on Libya imposed after the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, a decade earlier. That, in turn, would be a first step toward allowing American companies back into a country...
Many of those peers had a high opinion of Mary. Janet Flanner ("Genet") called her "the most educated female mind of our time in both America and England." The New Yorker editor William Shawn went so far as to say, "There aren't many people you could mention in connection...
School Committee Member E. Denise Simmons gave a forceful final statement, initially refusing to vote, saying she was "disappointed in the way this all came together."
The task of this month's Security Council chairman - U.S. ambassador Richard Holbrooke, who'll have to find a new nominee unless Russia backs down on Ekeus - is made more difficult by the growing anti-U.S. drift in Moscow's foreign policy. Although Russia has long opposed Washington's...