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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe the worst thing about campaign-season outing--whether it brings out the truth or spreads a usable lie--is that it depends upon a climate in which simply labeling someone a homosexual is an insult. The tactic won't work on the day when calling someone gay might be an error but not an accusation. "The sad thing in all this," says Tafel, "is that everybody involved believes that being 'charged' with being gay is bad." Republicans may have fostered that climate. Will Democrats be any better if they turn it to their advantage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BAITING GAME | 10/14/1996 | See Source »

Therefore, the only classes one should even consider sleeping in are medium-sized to large rooms, with the final decision being based on the four aforementioned factors. However, in truth, they are hard to compute and more difficult to weigh. Lighting level varies and is practically subjective, while age is difficult (though not impossible) to determine. And how does one know if a given slope of the seating rows is enough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How to Sleep in Class | 10/12/1996 | See Source »

...along these lines: Our society isn't nearly as dangerous as it's made out to be. The threatening undertones that pulse through the media and recent political rhetoric are useful tools for boosting readership or scaring voters into civic submission, but they aren't reflective of any greater truth. We are a culture with a violence fixation; even as we bemoan the increased brutality of our cities, we turn the volume of the TV up to make sure we hear the final glory details...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Living in Fear | 10/12/1996 | See Source »

Advertised as "Say No to Columbus Day" on posters throughout Boston, "A Life-Affirming, Anti-Racism Alternative to Columbus Day--A Day of Truth and Intercultural Solidarity" will be held Monday from 4 to 8:30 p.m. at 4 Danforth Street in Jamaica Plains...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rethinking Columbus: hero or savage? | 10/12/1996 | See Source »

...guiding principle of Harvard's policy on these matters should be an appropriation of Marxist rhetoric: Democratic capitalism calls for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. The human spirit and the quest for truth which we so much value in our academic studies and in our political debates are also embodied in the religions celebrated by students in the University. Their expression of their religious sentiment is not only a right, it is a good. Harvard should value diversity in its truest sense--diversity of beliefs--because from the interaction of undergraduates on this plane, students will both better...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Religious Displays Should Educate | 10/10/1996 | See Source »

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