Word: hates
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...Matthew Shepard Honored at Vigil" (News, Oct. 16), Jared Wasserman writes that" [q]ueer leaders from Harvard College did not attend" the vigil at the Massachusetts State House, which was organized by the Governor's Taskforce on Hate Crimes. Wasserman's article gives the impression that there was no Harvard presence at this important event and that the gay and lesbian community at Harvard has not reacted to the brutal murder of the openly gay University of Wyoming student. In reality, Harvard-affiliated attendees at the memorial vigil included students and faculty members from the Harvard School of Public Health...
...community, we are deeply saddened by the murder, and we urge the Harvard community to support the federal Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 1998 and to hold memorial observances of our own Activities in and around the Yard included staffing an informational table in front of the Science Center (Oct. 6) and a memorial service at Adams House (Oct. 22) to remember Matthew Shepard and all other victims to hate crimes. We invite the Harvard community to join with us to find ways to ensure that no individual is ever victimized on the basis of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual...
Torvalds, like many self-made hacker heroes--and, for that matter, Bill Gates--was drawn to computers at an early age. He's been programming since he was 10 (what else are you going to do in Finland if you hate ice hockey?), when Granddad brought home a Commodore VIC-20 and recruited Linus to be his "right-hand man." Linus immediately started using the VIC-20 to write his own computer games...
Oprah's Beloved appears to be one more in the current series of racial hate-mongering films. Doesn't anyone remember how Uncle Tom's Cabin, by vilifying the antebellum slave owners, helped bring on a war that cost half a million lives? JERRY PATTERSON Van Nuys, Calif...
...Clinton spent the weekend raising millions of campaign dollars and riding high on a couple of hot-button issues -- the murder of Matthew Shepard and the marathon Mideast peace talks in Maryland. The former is to the '98 election what black church burnings were in 1996 -- the kind of hate crime that Clinton can really get his teeth into; a battle he doesn't have to fudge. The latter, even his opponents agree, has given the President some much-needed stature. Indeed, they're both such winners that Clinton is doing his best to link them: "If you were heartbroken...