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...lesbian issues has been debated, but no one could argue with the 1996 appointment of R. Scott Hitt as chairman of the first ever Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS. In his first six weeks on the job, the Los Angeles physician--the first openly gay person to head such a group--recommended eight urgent proposals, including a White House conference, all of which Clinton quickly adopted. The outspoken Hitt, who once criticized his boss's "hypocrisy" for not supporting needle-exchange programs, had metastatic colon cancer...
...didn’t want to, because “it will take away [his] talent.” While these details about Schulz are interesting and even endearing, they seem only to inevitably add to the mastery of the comics, and not so much to Schulz as a person. Michaelis notes from the very beginning that Charles Schulz liked to think he was invisible. That invisibility pervades the biography, and it feels as though the comic strips dispersed throughout offer a more accurate, succinct, and human account of the Peanuts creator than the anecdotes and histories put together. Indeed...
...believe we have identified the person,” said Peter Kosewski, director of communications for the Harvard University Library. Kosewski said the library’s Office of Information Services notified the user of the violations...
...missing here...We have to create something where someone has an incentive to get the faculty to get their book orders in.”The chair of the statistics department, Xiao-Li Meng, proposed an alternative solution to that problem. Meng suggested that every department appoint a staff person to remind professors to send their book titles to the Coop and collect information on those books. Such a procedure already exists in the statistics department, Meng said. “I view this problem as more of a lack of teaching infrastructure,” he said.Dean...
...more supportive than others. The five families come from all spectrums of life: one is a southern black family of preachers, and others include gay Episcopalian Bishop Gene Robinson, political bigwig Dick Gephardt, and a woman whose daughter committed suicide after she came out.Interspersed throughout the families’ personal stories are clips of multiple Christian evangelicals preaching on the sinfulness of homosexuality, a cartoon explaining the science behind being gay, and a scene in which leading theologians debate the Bible’s stance on homosexuality.Karslake tapped two Harvard affiliates, Professor Peter J. Gomes...