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Every possible social permutation has its own piece of the calendar. We celebrate Secretary's Day, Black History Month, the Decade of the Brain, and the American Century. That organized and yet-to-be-organized labor deserves the same seems to be plain. And so we burn burgers in the summer heat of Labor...

Author: By Gabriel B. Eber, | Title: Bring Back the May Pole | 4/26/1997 | See Source »

...been studying for trivialities like midterms, writing papers, or just plain not paying attention, here's a guide which should get you through the first round of the draft. I added some trades which I thought could happen just to spice things...

Author: By Bryan Lee, | Title: Picking Up the Pace: The 1997 NFL Draft | 4/19/1997 | See Source »

...This hurts plain and simple," Lyng said. "We got some tough guys to play. Yale's really picked it up in the second half of the season. And Dartmouth, that's the kind of rivalry that no matter who's ranked what it always comes down to a one or two goal game...

Author: By Joseph K. Goodwin, | Title: Men's Lacrosse Pummeled by No. 11 Massachusetts, 12-6 | 4/17/1997 | See Source »

...interest, I think, was an innocent one--I was just plain curious about it. I had no agenda, and no concern about what my work might lead to, other than to a better understanding of what makes us human. But when my research hit the headlines, everyone assumed I did have an agenda, although they couldn't agree on what it was. To some, I was out to pathologize, perhaps to eliminate homosexuality. "Another example of medical homophobia!" declared one gay academic on prime time television. To others, I was out to justify homosexuality--to prove that we are "born...

Author: By Simon Levay, | Title: Unavoidably Queer? | 4/17/1997 | See Source »

...blaze, in this case the stampede that broke out as the flames spread. The fire broke out as the more than two million Muslims making the pilgrimage entered one of the crucial stages of the Haj: the eighth day, when pilgrims must spend the night camping on the desert plain of Mina outside Mecca. The incident is another in a series of embarrassments for a Saudi government that has increasingly staked its legitimacy on its role as the guardian of the Holy Places. "King Fahd now carries the title 'Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques,' an important element of legitimacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fire in the Desert | 4/15/1997 | See Source »

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