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...together this four-city tour that could bring the contributors to the book onto stage, reading their pieces and performing their pieces. And it just was a very organic idea that happened to be kind of the perfect storm, because there was also the writer’s strike going on. So a lot of these people who would otherwise be busy doing shows or different projects had some time to actually come out and do these shows...
...even at the time, some students were uncomfortable with the politicization of an organization that had provided them with a safe means for socializing in an otherwise-cold climate for gay students.The same conflict continues to challenge members of institutional queer life at Harvard, who find it difficult to strike the right balance between political advocacy and safe socializing. Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II, an out administrator who served as a resource for LGBT students as a former freshman proctor, tells me that the question is a “perennial?...
...pickups. When we came across villages, Sven and I would stay in the car, hiding under headscarves drawn over our heads, pretending to be women. The destination of our two-day off-road journey to one of Africa's remotest corners was the site of another U.S. air strike, in January...
...personnel who hoped to flush out three al-Qaeda commanders responsible for the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The bombers had been suspected of sheltering with the ICU. When the militants regrouped in the south, the U.S. saw its chance and launched two separate air strikes, followed by another strike from a U.S. battleship in the north of the country in June. Whom and how many the U.S. attacks killed has remained uncertain, as is the toll from Monday's attack. What is known is that at least one of the three 1998 bombers - explosives designer...
...Darfur as Africa's worst humanitarian disaster, with 1.8 million people in dire need of assistance. And if drought, starvation and disease weren't enough, they now find themselves on the latest battleground in a global war between the U.S. and al-Qaeda. The victims of Monday's missile strike, say the villagers of Doble, were not the militants they fear, but four of their own. On Tuesday, the BBC reported that hundreds of women and children marched through Doble, chanting anti-American slogans...