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THREE YEARS AGO, when they were still ducking food thrown in dining halls and fighting to keep their posters from being defaced and torn down, the members of a small and struggling Gay Students Association (GSA) might not have believed they could accomplish so much so soon. This fall, Harvard's first funded student government elected a gay student--in fact, a highly visible gay activist--its first chairman...
...gloves to fend off the toxins from the decaying flesh. Frantic clusters of Palestinians gathered around the rigid, pathetic bundles. From time to time, one of the onlookers would shriek in horror, catching sight of the distorted features of a friend or family member. At one point, a woman torn by grief stood over one of the bloated corpses waving a scarf and a handful of personal letters. "Yi, yi, are you my husband?" she screamed. "My God, who will help me? All my sons are gone. My husband is gone. What am I going...
...Harvard-affiliated Arnold Arboretum recently began an ivy-related alumni fund drive of its own, offering cuttings of torn down Harvard ivy in return for a $100 donation...
During his five years as TIME'S bureau chief in Cairo, Wilton Wynn frequently covered the fighting in war-torn Lebanon. Now the bureau chief in Rome, Wynn was back in Lebanon last week when Bashir Gemayel was assassinated. A few days earlier, Wynn had obtained the only interview with Gemayel after his election as President, and the last one, it was to turn out, that the Christian leader was to give. Wynn's impressions...
Azzam said that a rally the group held yesterday at the Israeli embassy was broken up by mounted police, who rode into their picket line, injuring some of the protesters. Azzam added that one of the protesters is now hospitalized with a torn back muscle...