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...said the long name is difficult to understand or remember and limits the scope of the organization to those sexualities explicitly named in the organization title...

Author: By Danielle J. Kolin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BGLTSA Debates New Name | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...understand that Queer is a word that people have reclaimed for the community (or are in the process of reclaiming),” wrote Barry A. Shafrin ’09 Tuesday night in the first of many e-mail responses to the announcement. “But to me it still carries connotations of oddity or otherness...

Author: By Danielle J. Kolin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BGLTSA Debates New Name | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...most. In Omaha, Nebraska, the winner was a woman who complained that classical music had no plot. I thought that was truly insightful—there are just notes going by, just random sounds. My job is to get people to follow the plot of the music and to understand the language that the plot is being spoken in. THC: What is it about the stereotypical classical music concert experience that seems to discourage untrained listeners from participating?RK: There’s so much bad feeling around it, so many “coulds?...

Author: By Monica S. Liu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kapilow Channels Seuss | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...understand the court's work is in danger, however. You're running out of money. From the beginning, the decision was taken to have the court funded by voluntary contributions. That makes it very challenging. Countries make their decisions on whether to fund it annually. There are other priorities, particularly in the current climate, and getting that funding is very difficult. Some days we have been down to our last $6,000. We have had some very hungry days. When I look at our pledges today, we can get to June or July, maybe August, but I just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guilty: Justice in Sierra Leone at Last | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...heart." Some of the crimes appear to be examples of the Caucasus' tradition of blood revenge, where a relative of an enemy is as much a target as the enemy himself - a tradition that may have been brought over to Moscow by the Chechen diaspora. "You have to understand that Chechnya is Chechnya - it has had so many wars in the last decade," says Malashenko. "They have forgotten how to resolve things by law. All they know is violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Behind Moscow's Recent Murder Spree? | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

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