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...communications I had received from North House over the summer assured me that my nightmares (and dreams) of a random, forced house transfer wouldn't be realized. More worrisome were my fears about sharing a double with a first-year archenemy or surviving a triple with the editors of Peninsula and Perspective...
...incidents at Harvard from the fall of 1991 are mentioned in a list of examples of violence and harassment at Massachusetts institutions: a November 1991 issue of the conservative student magazine Peninsula, which criticized homosexuality and the "homosexual lifestyle," and the postering of signs around campus urging "Harvard: Don't Recruit Homosexuals...
Gomes announced he was gay in November [99] in a speech in front of Memorial Church. In the speech, he was responding to an issue of the conservative campus magazine Peninsula, which criticized homosexuality. Gomes has since been attacked by Christians on and off campus who adhere to a literal interpretation of the Bible...
...Maya puzzle: even as scientists continue to investigate the mysterious eclipse of the classic Maya empire, the Maya themselves are all around them. An estimated 1.2 million Maya still live in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, and nearly 5 million more are spread throughout the Yucatan Peninsula and the cities and rural farm communities of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. Ethnically, they are derived from the same people who created the most exalted culture in Mesoamerica. Yet the thousands of visitors who come each year to admire the imposing temples of Palenque might be shocked to know...
...Glines Canyon Dam and the Elwha Dam on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula are also possible candidates for removal. They block five species of salmon -- the Chinook, the pink, sockeye, chum and coho -- from spawning grounds. Observes Shawn Cantrell, director of Friends of the Earth's Northwest Rivers Project: "If the final decision is made to remove the dams, it will be a statement by our national government that past exploitation of our natural resources can be corrected. We can go back and fix the mistakes we made in previous generations...