Word: ralph
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...work group met yesterday afternoon to discuss final details of the "transition" of the building to a smoke-free environment, according to Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers representative Ralph Vetters. No penalty for smoking in the building after next week has been discussed, work group members said...
...reading, which is being sent to students as part of a publication called the Harvard College News, consists of essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Dubois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., President Neil L. Rudenstine and Faye Chiu '95, Epps said...
...Ralph White, 36, an attorney with the General Accounting Office, says he was fired from a senatorial staff in 1982 after admitting he was gay. He foresees abiding significance in the study: "I don't expect people to suddenly change their minds. But the long-term impact will be profound. I can't imagine that rational people, presented with evidence that homosexuality is biological and not a choice, would continue to discriminate." His brother David, 32, a public relations officer, wishes he had had a basis for believing in a genetic cause during his turbulent adolescence: "I was defiant...
...black men have been invisible in America, as Ralph Ellison argued, black women have been inaudible. Doubly oppressed by racism and sexism, they have often gone unheard as male civil rights leaders did the talking for their race and white feminists did the talking for their sex. In recent years a growing chorus of black female writers like Toni Morrison and Alice Walker has begun to direct a passionate blast against male chauvinists on both sides of the color line. But there has seldom been an indictment of the self-absorption and self-delusion of the corporate male, both white...
...recent ruling by Federal Court Judge Charles E. Richey, requiring that an environmental impact statement must be drafted before NAFTA can be presented to Congress for ratification, may prove to be a pyrrhic victory for the groups (Sierra Club, Friends Of The Earth and Ralph Nader's Public Citizen who filed the suit...