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...queer students are still expected to explain or defend their identities and decisions, there are queer students who continue to find Harvard an inhospitable place to come out, people’s sexual and gender identities still serve as a basis for prejudice, and anti-queer acts of violence occur. Moreover, some social circles are considerably less accepting than others. Despite all of the progress Harvard has made, we can still make the University a better place for queer students, faculty, and staff...
...CCSR has instructed the Harvard Management Company, which oversees the University’s $22.6 billion endowment, to sell its PetroChina stake, according to University spokesman John Longbrake. Longbrake could not provide a timetable for when the sales would occur...
...region's tectonic stress? A: Don't bet on it. The area off the coast of Sumatra is a subduction zone, a highly unstable region where the India Plate, the Australia Plate, the Sunda Plate and the Burma Micro-Plate collide and dive beneath one another. Earthquakes tend to occur in clusters in subduction zones, and McCloskey says his initial findings indicate that the latest quake has accentuated the stress along the Sunda Trench fault for another 300 km south. The result is like the steady growth of a crack in a car windshield. "We don't know if this...
...happen again? A: Almost certainly yes. "This is obviously a cluster of quakes," says Sieh. "The question now: Is it a cluster of two, or a cluster of more?" He points out that quakes tend to hit the region every 200 years or so. The last earthquakes to occur near the newly stressed area south of last week's temblor were in 1797 and 1833?meaning quakes could be primed to occur again soon. There's no way to tell when an earthquake will strike?scientists can measure the stress on a fault, but they don't know how much...
...occurred to me that this was just about the most inappropriate thing a man could say to a woman who had just been dumped by her husband of 16 years for his mistress. Didn't it occur to him that it would be his wife I'd identify with, not him? This is one strange guy, I thought...