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...same legal principle that can be used to further gay rights in one context also can be used to defend anti-gay policies in another.For some civil rights activists, that’s a frightening lesson—because it means FAIR could win this battle and lose the wider war.‘DO WE REALLY WANT FAIR TO WIN?’University of Mississippi law professor Paul M. Secunda ’93, a former Eliot House government concentrator, opposes the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy...
...things private. Last August the kgb raided the apartments of several students who had e-mailed each other cartoons lampooning Lukashenko. The youths now face trial and stiff prison terms. Late last month, the rubber-stamp legislature passed a bill outlawing virtually every form of political dissent and authorizing wider use of pretrial detention, and stiffer jail sentences. It will come into effect just as the presidential election campaign kicks off. "Of course you'll elect me," the Batska declared earlier this month. "What else can you do?" Western nations have criticized Lukashenko's regime, but have done little else...
SHADOW BOXERS JIM LOMMASSON Boxing gymsdon't have the sheen of health clubs or the cachet of martial-arts dojos. They're sweatshops, where young men who don't usually have many prospects in the wider world struggle to make the most of whatever it is that boils in their blood. For 10 years, Lommasson, a photographer based in Portland, Ore., has traveled around the U.S. and Canada, poking his camera into the places, like the Fraser Arms in Vancouver, below, where young fighters train. He has plainly got to know them and their coaches well enough to understand...
...just be visual. The menu is also changing in an effort to appeal to the palates of hungry Eliot residents, according to Samia S. Farooqi ’07, one of the Grille’s managers. “We’re trying to attract a wider audience by having healthier options [in the Grille] as well” said Farooqi. Although most of the menu changes don’t hearken back to the age of drive-ins, the Grille has plans to extend the 50’s theme into service, she said. According to Farooqi...
...attracts a weekly turnout of about 30 of the same students—mostly freshmen—the HPU’s current format needs to do more to stir and retain interest. A greater emphasis on intellectual debate would not detract, but rather inspire and bring in a wider range of students...