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...dining manager asked two female dining hall workers, “What are you, lesbians?” Union president Janice Loux said the two women were chatting, and the manager may have wanted them to stop their conversation. As an immediate reaction to the remarks, BGLTSA and SLAM leaders are planning to raise awareness of the incident. “We would feel a lot stronger if we see strong student support,” said Edward B. Childs, Adams House cook and the union’s chief steward, at the meeting last night. Rainbow gay-pride pins...
...Tigers went to the line 24 times and hit 19 of them, including all six in the final four minutes. Their junior center Zach Finley was the only player to foul out, though not until he had driven from near halfcourt and threw down a slam over freshman forward Peter Boehm...
...Adams junior and BGLTSA Secretary Christian L. Garland ’10, who forwarded Nicolson’s message to the BGLTSA e-mail list. Garland wrote in an e-mailed statement that he will “press [BGLTSA] to become more involved with other interested organizations (like SLAM) to form a more coherent and organized movement against anti-LGBTQ discrimination.” Lowell House resident tutor and BGLT adviser Marcus Alexander also forwarded Nicolson’s e-mail to the Lowell open list, urging both straight and gay students to wear something symbolizing BGLT pride...
...Obama says he's willing to sit down and talk with Chávez and Castro - but he's not a big fan of the Latin left's populism. In a speech last May in Miami, he did slam Bush's Americas policy as "negligent toward our friends, ineffective with our adversaries, disinterested in the challenges that matter in people's lives and incapable of advancing our interests in the region." Yet he also suggested that "demagogues like Chávez have stepped into the vacuum. [Their] predictable yet perilous mix of anti-American rhetoric, authoritarian government and checkbook diplomacy...
...This is particularly evident on a hard court, which offers less forgiveness than the softer surfaces of clay and grass, and may explain why Nadal has never managed to make the final of a Grand Slam hard-court event. Ask his trainer, Rafael Maymo, what parts of Nadal's body are under strain when he plays, and he answers: "Shoulder, feet, legs and back. Oh wait, that's every part." Sampras is even more direct: [Nadal] puts so much effort into each point that eventually something will break...