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...need protective laws and an understanding community,” Barrios said, addressing a gathering of two dozen at the event held at an AIDS activism visual media exhibition. “Right now, not all of us feel comfortable enough to come...
Harvard history professor Charles S. Maier ’60, who has held tenure since 1981, admitted to feeling “disoriented” by the changes...
Congressman Tip O’Neill famously said, “All politics is local.” If that’s true, we hope that Harvard students are paying attention to the local election taking place next Tuesday: the primaries for the Senate seat formerly held by Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56. On the Democratic side, there is one candidate who best seems to follow in the tradition of great representatives like Kennedy or O’Neill—whose congressional seat he now holds. This candidate is Michael E. Capuano...
Gordon Johnson, deputy vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge, reflected on the different roles of institutions of higher education in society, emphasizing the importance of building alliances with other universities, in a lecture held in honor of Cambridge’s 800th anniversary this year...
...Vavuniya, a town in the north of Sri Lanka and a journey of about 18 miles (30km) from Menik Farm, the camp for displaced persons where he and his family have been detained for about seven months. They were among the 225,000 to 280,000 people who were held in several detention camps after fleeing the fighting in the last stages of the 26-year-long war between the Sri Lankan Army and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, which ended...