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BORN: July 18, 1950, Fort Wayne EDUCATION: Indiana U, B.S., 1972; U of Notre Dame, M.B.A., 1974 FAMILY: Wife, Diane; three children RELIGION: United Brethren in Christ MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Congressional aide; general-store owner POLITICAL CAREER: U.S. House, 1994- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 400, Grabill...
...power, primarily on Capitol Hill, have over the past two years made proposals to cut funding for AIDS research and prevention. Yes, there are more medications on the market today, but that does not mean we have found the cure. And, until we do find a cure, our "brethren" and our sisters will be living with HIV and related sicknesses, and yes we, including students at Harvard-Radcliffe, will be at risk. Proposals which make it difficult to talk about AIDS make it impossible to deal with the reality of AIDS...
Luke C. Plazer '00 was quoted as saying, "I'm a student at a college, not an animal at a zoo." My, my, Luke--I pity you and your brethren. Not for feeling like animals in a cage, but for being snot-nosed elitists...
...done to fight AIDS and every other disease on this planet, one need not concurrently find value in homosexuality. Without justice, there can be no peace. To promote justice, one must practice compassion. That sentiment is slow in coming when those demanding it also insist on linking their brethren to Nazism, Fascism and genocide--merely for raising questions central to the issue itself...
Then came the exodus of more than 1 million Rwandans in 1994. Militiamen and members of the defeated Hutu army, furious at losing their war with Tutsi rebels, soon joined with their Zairian Hutu brethren and began killing Zairian Tutsi. Their objective, observers believe, is a "Hutuland" on Zairian soil that would provide a safe haven for refugees and a base for ongoing armed incursions into Rwanda...