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...ensued, and someone eventually pointed out that Rhode Island has a law against anti-gay discrimination. The local Scout council issued a statement offering the kid the job. But when the men at Scout headquarters heard about the controversy, they had spokesman Gregg Shields confirm that the boy can't be a scout if he is gay. The local council quickly backtracked, reaching an uneasy compromise with headquarters: the boy kept the job--and his scouting membership--but he had to agree not to talk about being gay. Since then, the United Way and other funders have been under pressure...
After a disappointing ninth-place finish on Tuesday at the University of Rhode Island, the Harvard men's golf team returned to Cambridge dejected, but hopeful for next year's prospects...
Blustery conditions certainly impacted the Crimson's performance, while the Rams seemed comfortable battling the elements, cruising to a top finish on their home course. Six Rhode Island players broke the top 15, giving the team a final score of 609 and outdistancing second-place Hartford by a comfortable ten-stroke margin...
...rough outing in Rhode Island marks the end of a frustrating spring. In the fall, the Crimson took third place at both the ECAC and NEIGA championships. This season the team never found its rhythm, and the fickle Cambridge weather proved to be a constant impediment to practice...
...Lahiri. She was wholly unprepared, however, for the news last week that she had won a Pulitzer Prize. "This is the stuff of miracles," she says. "Not even my publisher knew I was in the running." Lahiri, whose parents are from India, was born in London and raised in Rhode Island. Currently, she lives in New York and is working on a novel, a pursuit she was forced to suspend last week to contend with the flood of flower deliveries and phone calls. "I'm very impressed with the makers of my answering machine," she says. "I still...