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Last week there were rumblings among a few alumni that Gomes must go, or "Harvard fund-raising efforts will be significantly handicapped," predicts Gavin Quill, class of '85, a marketing analyst in Boston who wants Gomes out. But so far the chaplain's job does not appear to be in jeopardy. The conservative Christians are far outnumbered -- or at least outmaneuvered -- by Harvard's well-organized gay and lesbian community. At Harvard Divinity School, a bastion of liberalism, Dean Ronald Thiemann argues that Concerned Christians expresses "little more than a literalist interpretation of Scripture, without any theological sophistication." Anderson scoffs...
...tackle the holly maze behind the Governor's Palace, buy new quill pens and replenish my supplies of ink and sealing wax at least once a year or else suffer from withdrawal...
...used an ink quill to intimidate the room monitor, ran from the second-floor Widener Room to the library's basement and "disappeared," according to Harvard University Police Chief Paul E. Johnson...
...month Washington state will vote on an initiative that would legalize physician-assisted suicide for patients with six months or less to live. If the proposal passes, Washington would become the first state to legalize active euthanasia. No Western country has yet done so. Earlier this year, Dr. Timothy Quill of Rochester, N.Y., wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine about helping a patient with acute leukemia kill herself with barbiturates. A state panel of physicians found his actions medically and legally appropriate, and a local grand jury cleared him of any criminal charges. Yet Quill, like many doctors...
Much of the information is frighteningly easy to obtain. A guide published by the Quill Corp. of Lincolnshire offers public-domain prospecting tips for listmakers. Among other things, it suggests taking a look at marriage licenses, birth certificates, voter registrations, sporting and business licenses and the membership rolls of schools, churches and civic organizations. Quill advises that these lists can often be obtained through local government offices...