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...stirred in me. You made me nervous to be out and gay on my own campus. You made me anxious to crawl back to the comfort of my own car and to my own room to be gay in peace. At the table you made me run to the safer ground of small talk and general conversation. I wanted you to forget it was a gay person you were dealing with. I wanted us to seem more "normal...
...ruling, the tobacco industry is hedging its bets by aggressively expanding operations in foreign markets such as Asia and the former Soviet bloc, areas where tobacco regulations are scarce and youthful consumers eager to snap up high-profile Western products are plentiful. Also in the works -- development of "safer" cigarettes, which so far haven't made it out of research labs. Osteen has promised a decision on the regulations anywhere from between five to 10 weeks, but with so much at stake on both sides, it's not likely to be the last word...
Acting on the promise of the administration to change the source of student lighting to a safer and less expensive alternative, the Committee on College Life (COCL) has begun to ponder an existence without halogen lamps, those beloved lighting fixtures omnipresent on the Harvard campus. This bureaucratic contemplation is a necessary procedure, for the halogens are far from perfect. But the COCL had better make sure that students are well-supplied with substitute luminescence of comparable quality before it hastily recommends banning the lamps...
...thrown trash and stones over the wall of the compound and made obscene gestures toward rebels visible in its windows. The captors have responded in kind with intermittent machine-gun fire, apparently warning off the police. So far, no one has been injured. Blaring rock music might be a safer alternative...
...payroll taxes--not in exchange for higher retirement benefits but for lower ones than workers were promised back when taxes were lower. And when might this promise, like the others, become inoperative? No one can say. Little wonder that many workers now judge that their nest egg would be safer in their own hands than in the government...