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Reich, the co-coordinator of the Gay and Lesbian Cooperative, the umbrella organization for such groups as the Yalesbians and the Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Unsure meetings, is willing--even eager--to discuss his life as a gay student at Yale...
Leelee Groome: Who says all excitement happens on the offensive end? Groome, a senior sweeper on the field hockey team, makes playing defense as thrilling--and dangerous--as parachuting with an umbrella. If the ball is heading toward the Harvard goal, you can bet Groome will be charging after it. And if she gets a hold of the ball with her stick, beware. It will either go a mile on the ground, or fly into the air in wicked line-drive fashion, daring an opposing forward to stand...
...idea of the international conference is dividing the Cabinet along party lines, for reasons that have as much to do with internal politics as international politics. King Hussein of Jordan is said to want the Soviet Union in attendance at such an "umbrella" conference. He reportedly thinks that he needs their presence to protect him from the wrath of less conciliatory moderate Arab leaders. He has made it clear that he will not meet with the Israelis unless the Soviets have a seat at the conference table...
Those fence sitters have been the targets of one of the most aggressive congressional lobbying drives in recent memory. "I've never seen this intensity for a campaign before," says Ralph Neas, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the umbrella organization coordinating the anti-Bork juggernaut. "People are looking at this as all our previous battles wrapped into one." Says Tom Korologos, a noted Republican lobbyist retained by the White House to fight for Bork: "Rarely have I seen both left and right so vehement in their zeal...
...recanted some of that position, concluding that "many other forms of discourse, such as moral and scientific debate, are central to democratic government and deserve protection." But in a conversation with Journalist Bill Moyers televised earlier this year, Bork still hesitated to put art firmly beneath the constitutional umbrella. "I think you're getting toward the outer edge there," he told Moyers...