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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Peggy T. Lim '01, co-chair of the Women's Leadership Project (WLP), was asked by Avery via an e-mail message to be part of the committee...
...Carlos Zenon, a fisherman who has been struggling to rid Vieques of the Navy's constant shelling and bombing as part of their military exercises on the island. He told me how when he was a three-year-old boy living in Vieques, a Navy representative came to his house informing his mother that her house and land had been expropriated by the Navy. She was given 24 hours to leave her home. The following day Zenon saw his mother weeping inconsolably as a Navy bulldozer toppled their home. Like Zenon, more than 10,000 people were driven from their...
...following presidents will not be bound by Friday's decision. The end of this five-year time period will coincide with the next presidential election. Conservative Americans who fervently defend U.S. military interests will be able to exert much more pressure than Puerto Ricans, since we are not a part of the U.S. electoral process. Indeed, the will of the Puerto Rican people, supported by a past Congress, has been ignored for the past 18 years. In 1981, Congress gave the Navy five years to find reasonable alternatives to Vieques for its military training. The Navy has yet to propose...
...Coming out" is the experience of declaring one's sexual orientation to friends and family. It is an act that always demands great bravery and often results in tragic consequences. "Coming out" is not part of any radical political agenda. Whatever qualms conservatives may have about the gay rights movement, they surely cannot object to homosexuals sharing their identity with others...
...tidbits, like the fact that the senator from Arizona uses a nasal spray for his seasonal hay fever, or that he had a herpetic lesion on his genitals (which disappeared without treatment!) may help to dissipate fears of lingering problems brought on by his ordeal as a POW - in part because no one who would tell the general public about herpetic lesions can be hiding very much. But even if the other candidates follow suit, offering their own medical, financial and psychological reports for public perusal, will anyone really know who's best suited to be president...