Word: host
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Animal-rights groups have steadily gathered force. Last month Trans-Species Unlimited, an animal activist organization, staged its fourth annual Fur-Free Friday in 90 cities across the nation. In New York City some 3,000 protesters, led by perennial TV game-show host Bob Barker, marched down Fifth Avenue carrying signs and taunting fur-coat wearers with shouts of "Shame!" Says Barker, who resigned last year as host of the Miss Universe pageant because contestants wore fur: "We want people wearing fur to be embarrassed when they walk into a restaurant. Fur is obscene, fur is cruel...
...attention has only just been drawn to a letter published by The Crimson on November 13th, in which the Dean of the Divinity School [Ronald Theimann] explains why the School refused to host the conference I was organizing, "Apartheid's Arc and the Palestinian Uprising: Making the Connections." In the interests of accuracy--and honesty--it demands a response...
...letter Dean Theimann affirms "The School's commitment to the exercise of free speech throughout the University." These are encouraging words, but the School's recent rack record seems to imply a Middle East exception to the First Amendment. As I understand it, the School's refusal to host a conference was preceded by its refusal to host a conference called "Towards Peace in the Middle East," to be sponsored by the U.S. Inter-religious Committee...
...Citing a host of factors which he says have damaged the ability of research institutions to conduct business, Spence concludes that Harvard must enter the fundraising sweepstakes in order to finance its future...
Through a host of connections--both formal and informal--students at Harvard and those at Rindge and Latin come in contact every day, beyond the perfunctory glances of a walk through the Yard...