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Harvard’s Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Allilance (BGLTSA) has a big job: it has to foster a tolerant community for people who identify with the many letters in its acronym. In addition to its duties as a social group, the BGLTSA is also the assigned undergraduate forum for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) political issues. Although the BGLTSA attempts to straddle its two roles, the social and the political, it has failed to do justice to either. The university needs a new way of addressing LGBT political issues, because they deserve more focused attention from...
...observers still held out hope that the FARC might come through, he seemed to break his own promise to stay clear of the process and arrived in Villavicencio with stunning news. Colombian government intelligence, he said, suggests that 3-year-old Emmanuel was released two years ago to a foster family. Whether that's true or not, Uribe left the impression that he was passively-aggressively scuttling the release effort to avoid the embarrassment of having FARC hostages delivered to Chavez; last month Uribe all but cut off the Venezuelan leader from the government-rebel negotiations when a dispute erupted...
...came two months after Chadian police arrested a total of 17 people working with Zoé's Ark in the eastern town of Abéché as they prepared an unauthorized airlift of 103 children to France, where they were to receive medical care and be placed in foster homes. Zoé's Ark officials contended that their furtive methods were necessary to get urgent aid to the children, who they claimed were orphans from nearby Darfur. But investigators soon found that most of the children were in stable condition - and that virtually all of them were Chadian nationals...
...Unlike some who are born-again, Charlie doesn't discard his old ways. He's attracted to this unlikely, maybe undoable scheme in part because it requires his own special skill set, and in part because - as Charles Foster Kane said about running a newspaper - Charlie thinks it would be fun to bankroll a counterinsurgency. In the cheerful bravado of a can-do Texan, he thinks: Hell, why not? When Charlie masterminds it, war is swell...
...your outlook been affected by the passing of your friend, the adventurer Steve Fossett? -Joshua Foster, Spartanburg, S.C.People who really try to push boundaries often do not die in those pursuits. Lawrence of Arabia spent years fighting battles and got killed in a motorbike accident. When you're trying to achieve things man hasn't achieved before, you're trained for it. It's when you're off guard that things can be dangerous...