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...atmosphere that breeds resentment, hostility and hopelessness with no better outlook on life than death, is the idea that's perpetuated. Austin W. So should try living in Harlem as an African American for a decade, and he may come to understand that rising out of the ghetto and overcoming a system that is doing everything it can to keep you down and "out of it" is a difficult thing to do. Try working on living conditions and equality of quality within educational systems, Austin W. So, and then, and only then, will you be able to see some real...
...second stereotype about gay men is that they are naturally artificially witty. "The gay community has a flamboyant style of humor that I cherish," Rudnick says. "It's a form of gay soul. I hate people who imagine it's simply bitchiness or some sort of ghetto response to intolerance. Nah, it's much bigger than that, and much more fun." It also provides gays with perhaps their sturdiest armor against the gay holocaust. And it is this strength Jeffrey so smartly taps. Most plays about AIDS, including this year's Pulitzer prizewinner Angels in America, send the disease...
...have found some quotes regarding ceremonies held over the past couple of days for Holocaust Remembrance (April 18) and the fifty-year anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising against the Nazis (April 19). I thought others might find these interesting in light of today's political climate...
Even as fighting eased in Srebrenica under a cease-fire agreement brokered in Sarajevo late Saturday night, painful memories were being evoked half a continent away, in Poland, where preparations to mark the 50th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising were under way. In 1943, 60,000 Jewish survivors of starvation and deportation -- roughly the same number as those trapped in Srebrenica -- confronted Nazi troops in a final, hopeless battle. Back then the outside knew little and could do less about what was afoot. But the horror of the last days of Srebrenica could not be ignored by a world...
...display, which was sponsored by the Kennedy School's Jewish Student Caucus, also commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising...