Word: events
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last Wednesday, conservative organizations hosted a "Coming Out" party to celebrate their political ideology. The event was met with vociferous protest by the Queer Resistance Front, who picketed outside with posters accusing President Ronald Reagan with murderous negligence in the early years of the AIDS epidemic. While the protestors may have exhibited a degree of over-sensitivity, the organizers of the event exhibited an abundance of immaturity and plain stupidity...
...Last week's dinner could have been a jovial gathering of like-minded students celebrating their shared political beliefs. And the organizers could even have scheduled time for some aforementioned light-hearted whining about the Kremlin on the Charles. Instead, by calling the event a "Coming Out" dinner and scheduling it on World AIDS Day, those who organized the event demonstrated themselves to be not principled but rather inconsiderate and foolishly misdirected...
...Those choosing the name of last week's event chose a completely inappropriate target for their mockery. Further, the tragedy of the AIDS epidemic affects us all but certainly has a special resonance in the gay community. By holding their absurdly denoted dinner on the one day of the year set aside for remembering AIDS and its victims, last week's organizers demonstrated abhorrent disregard for the feelings of other students...
...addition to Martin's stellar performance, many team members recorded personal career records at the meet. Among these were Mike Im and Jamey Waters, who were also double event winners. Im won the 100 and 200 backstroke with times of 49.40 and 1:47.31, respectively. Waters took the 100 freestyle in a time of 45.12. Waters teamed with Matt Fritsch, Brian Swinteck and Adam Shaw to win the 400 freestyle relay...
With curfew and darkness rapidly approaching, we are about to board a military convoy heading out of town when the main event, much delayed, finally happens. Accompanied by multiple levels of security, Anatoli Chubais, former Deputy Prime Minister and Kremlin chief of staff and now head of the energy monopoly RAOEES, drives up to the administrative building. With him are the Russian government's point man for the breakaway republic, Nikolai Koshman, and the mufti of Chechnya, who has recently withdrawn his support from the government of Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov...