Word: quilts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...AIDS Institute will present the second annual AIDS Leadership Award today to Cleve Jones, creator of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt...
Each panel in the quilt Jones created is dedicated to a person who died from complications from AIDS...
Seven of the quilt's 25,000 detached panels arecurrently on display at the Fogg Art Museum. Theexhibit marks the first time Harvard has publiclyhosted the quilt...
...grass-roots efforts, however, form a crazy quilt of programs varying widely in generosity and effectiveness. There are companies whose idea of "reform" consists of slashing, or even denying, health benefits to retired employees (companies must now show the estimated cost of those benefits on their balance sheets as a liability, sometimes of embarrassing ; size). Some states have enacted only timid reforms, and others are being forced by a budget squeeze to pare down reforms put on the books in more prosperous times. Massachusetts, to take one prominent example, has delayed until 1995 some important steps in a comprehensive reform...
Ethnic studies--in terms of analyzing the different heritages that form the patchwork quilt of our American society--is less a distinct "approach to knowledge" meant to characterize the other Core offerings, Instead, it appears better suited as a focus of courses within the other, already defined fields, like literature and arts, or historical studies...