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...individuals coming to terms with their sexuality and to mediate spirited theoretical debates among students who feel themselves newly-empowered, intellectually, by recent course offerings in queer studies. To do all this while also attempting traditional issues-based awareness-raising and activism in the political realm is admittedly a formidable challenge. But the task cannot be forfeited: too much lies in the balance...
...consolidation in computerland. Companies like IBM, Microsoft, Yahoo and USA Interactive have spent billions of dollars snapping up smaller competitors. Others, like Palm and Handspring, have tried to stave off the hungry advances of these giants by merging. Now it's the turn of Ellison's realm, the complex world of business software, to go through some serious cyclical slimming. The outcome will be crucial to owners of widely held tech stocks and people who use their products, which includes just about everyone...
...North Goa has established hegemony in the realm of funky nightlife; the south specializes in historical funk, such as the Menezes Braganza Mansion. This rambling plantation house, partly dating from the 16th century, went into decline when India instituted land reform, so the family?resident for 14 generations? has opened it to the public. The 14th generation, named Abigail, aged two and naked as a jaybird, guided me by running ahead to open cabinets crammed with old silver, while dogs dozed on the ballroom floor...
Just as portraits of men dominate the walls here, Harvard’s buildings most often bare the names of prominent male donors and historical figures. But in the past few years, women have entered the realm of philanthropy at Harvard...
With plans for Allston still in the theoretical realm, the spotlight turns to the North Yard area, as Harvard expands onto neighboring Agassiz from all sides...