Word: upon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more vulnerable to them." The majority's ruling provoked an emotional dissent from Justice Harry Blackmun. "Poor Joshua! Victim of repeated attacks by an irresponsible, bullying, cowardly and intemperate father, and abandoned by ((county officials)) who placed him in a dangerous predicament," he wrote. "It is a sad commentary upon American life and constitutional principles...
...scene in which a Muhammadan cleric vows to kill Salman Rushdie for a book in which the Prophet condemns an apostate called Salman for "polluting the word of God." Who is the prophet here -- Rushdie, for predicting the confrontation in the first place, or the Ayatullah, for taking it upon himself to be the living embodiment of Islam? Life imitates art imitates life...
...share very personal feelings. I admire my fellow Mather residents for their openness. That kind of meeting--unprecedented at Harvard--constitutes a successful first step at learning from each other. I am also touched by the Mather residents who, before connected to BGLSA or Defeat Homophobia, took it upon themselves to make and display pink triangles in an effort to make bisexual, lesbian, and gay people feel welcome...
...everything in its power to ensure this. As long as they are not separate issues, they should not be pushed further--for the sake of the very cause Defeat Homophobia espouses. Now it is time for the gay community to show the bit of understanding they correctly urge upon the rest of society: to realize that what will most help all Mather students right now, gay and straight, is a bit of breathing space...
...Crimson in response to two recent articles pertaining to Mather House and the alleged problem with homophobia. These articles stemmed from a BGLSA reaction to an incident in Mather House on Sunday night, February 19, 1989. The BGLSA and the Crimson have shed sufficient, if not colossal, light upon the BGLSA's version of that Sunday night incident and the issue of homophobia...