Word: prided
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...just hours ahead of the final, Moscow's riot police squashed a gay-pride rally, hauling away about 40 demonstrators. Critics said that clamping down on gay activists at Eurovision seemed decidedly out of tune with the show's mission to promote peace and harmony among the competing countries. As Rybak said himself, "Why did [the police] spend all their energy stopping gays in Moscow when the biggest gay parade was here tonight...
...Maldivians - who pride themselves on thousands of years of unique history at the hub of Indian Ocean sea routes - want to leave, and Nasheed knows the sovereign fund is a last resort. Efforts now aim at shaping the country into a climate-change laboratory. In mid-March, the government announced its intention to be the world's first carbon-neutral nation within 10 years. The archipelago's coral reefs can also provide an invaluable testing ground for scientists. "Coral is the bedrock of our nation," says Azeez, who works at a coral-research and -regeneration facility at the Banyan Tree...
Alexeyev, 31, had decided to stage a gay-pride march to take advantage of the spotlight Moscow was enjoying for playing host to the Eurovision finals over the weekend. "We want equal rights. We don't want to be discriminated against," the director of Gayrussia.ru said a couple of days before the parade. "Many Eurovision fans are gay, and they will be watching what happens to us." Wary of the government of Moscow's openly homophobic mayor Yuri Luzhkov (a similar March two years ago had somehow ended in violence as neo-Nazis and religious groups attacked demonstrators), Alexeyev used...
...entirely House-exclusive, but people from that house should make up the bulk of the crowd. It’s a chance for new members of the House to meet and get acquainted with their soon-to-be neighbors and for everybody else to renew their House pride. When House formals are sold out to the highest bidder, they revert back to being regular weekend parties, with the uniting factor being fancy attire, not residential allegiance. Formals are best when you can wake up the next day and have brunch with those same revelers in your own dining hall...
...Quad has no cause to be considered the unfortunate domain of reluctantly banished unfortunates. With its spacious quarters, strong sense of House pride, and short walk to many shops and restaurants, the Quad is a wonderful place to live. But students will only consider it as such when the administration seriously considers the needs of those living there. Quad students now have justifiable safety concerns about returning home late at night and considerably lesser access to the many late-night activities on campus...