Word: ribboning
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...Coalition Against Sexual Violence and the Radcliffe Union of Students, with the express support of more than a dozen other campus organizations, have been handing out cards on campus with purple ribbons as women’s groups and others participate in Take Back the Night activities this week. Although this movement initially sought to make the streets safe for women to walk alone at night, now—at Harvard anyway—it means “raising awareness about sexual violence and other women’s issues.” The cards being handed out implore...
...impassioned speech by the general and welcome every single Air Force Cadet in the ROTC program to Brian’s common room. I feel empowered by the fact that I am bigger and stronger than the AF-ROTC troglodyte girls and force them to drink Pabst Blue Ribbon while I tender libations at the bar. Cadet Sean D. McGrath ’02 of Eliot House allows me to referee an arcane Air Force drinking contest. That, of course, is my great honor...
...blue ribbon commission investigating the FBI's failures in the case of FBI agent-turned-spy Robert Hanssen reported Thursday that routine background checks over more than two decades turned up numerous tip-offs that Hanssen was spending much more money that he was making...
...stage and even while he was watching the acts perform—that is, the acts to which he paid any attention at all. It should not come as any surprise though, that Summers was uncomfortable on Saturday. With only a few exceptions, every performer was wearing a green ribbon in support of ethnic studies, and many other people were wearing larger green buttons. Meanwhile, the University has remained steadfast in its view that there is no need for an ethnic studies department because it is cross-disciplinary. (Of course, as any student knows, there is in actuality very little...
...lifestyle, any good works she did tended to be forgotten. True, Margaret could be a difficult, high-handed presence - who often demanded deference even from her friends. But her many adopted charities greatly valued her efforts on their behalf. And she dutifully slogged through her allotted round of ribbon cuttings, provincial trips and hospital openings. Patron or president of more than 80 organizations, she worked hard for the Guide Association, the Royal Ballet and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, a particular favorite of which she had served as president continuously since...