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...Travia, is head of an initiative seeking to reduce binge drinking, so the bait used to lure students to his talk at Leverett House might have seemed surprising: booze. Travia, director of Harvard’s Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Services, staged a question and answer session on drinking in the Leverett Senior Common Room last night, underlining his frank and pragmatic approach to undergraduate alcohol use. “We are not prohibitionist by any stretch of the imagination,” said Travia, as he engaged a dozen students in a discussion about drinking, its health...
...York-based playwright and self-described “Jewish-American gay socialist” brought these many facets of his persona to controversial interpretations of Miller’s plays as well as his own construction of Jewish identity.A GAY JEW IN LOUISIANAIn a question-and-answer session with about 40 Harvard students at Hillel, the Louisiana-raised Kushner recalled how Judaism helped him get through a childhood of ostracism for being gay.“Being Jewish helped me understand how I could be something that the rest of the world said...
...Council call on Iran to suspend its nuclear activities. The official said that Rice warned Lavrov that Russia was becoming isolated from the rest of the Security Council; she referred, he says, to Tuesday's "informal" gathering of Security Council delegates hosted by the French UN mission. During that session, the official says, 13 of 15 representatives expressed agreement with a French-British draft proposal to have the Security Council issue a statement giving Iran two weeks to comply with the demands of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the watchdog organization that works to prevent nuclear proliferation...
...people would attend the seminar. According to HIS Treasurer Saheer A. Rizvi ’08, although the class will be similar to a course, it will be less stressful. “There are no discussion sections, no tests; no time commitment apart from attending the one-hour session; it’s designed to be a relaxed way for students to learn more about Islam,” he wrote in an e-mail. Nguyen said that the seminars were not meant to replace a course, although he added that, coincidentally, there are few college courses being taught...
...underscore that he was not cloistered, Bush held two meetings with lawmakers on Wednesday - a morning session in the Cabinet Room with five Republican Senate leaders and 10 Republican House leaders, and an afternoon meeting in the Yellow Oval room with about two dozen Republican House members to talk about the legislative agenda. Those meetings, not surprisingly, became fodder for further speculation. Asked if the first group of lawmakers that came to the White House on Wednesday had raised the type of concerns that Coleman had, Scott McClellan answered sharply, "No, of course...