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Long lasting or not, the controversy last week gave the Administration a severe buffeting. In Manhattan, an annual Holocaust service was moved from a synagogue to Madison Square Garden's Felt Forum, where an overflow audience of 5,500 heard Norman Lamm, president of Yeshiva University, declare, "A courtesy call at a conveniently located concentration camp cannot compensate for the callous and obscene scandal of honoring dead Nazis." Dressed in black, 41 women who had survived the death camps marched silently to the stage and lighted six banks of candles. At a similar observance in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Shimon...
...wearing punk haircuts, Muslims behind veils, and Americans in trim safari gear. Thousands of women from some 130 countries poured into Kenya's capital city last week for two conferences to mark the end of the United Nations Decade for Women, one sponsored by the U.N., the other, called Forum '85, a parallel meeting of non-governmental organizations. Many had high hopes that the gatherings would provide a sisterly exchange of ideas and strategies. "You will see something that is not a conference but an encounter, a happening . . . a meeting of the minds of women," predicted Barbadian Dame Nita Barrow...
...trying to claim that our Gaypril line-up is perfect, nor do we expect every event to please everybody. This will have been a successful Gaypril if, at the end of the month, supporters know how much we value their support, and all students will have had a forum in which they could feel proud of their sexuality and gender. Have a wonderful Gaypril, and we hope to see you around...
...study, published in The Forum, an online social science journal, concluded that discrimination may account for a reported dearth of conservatives in academia...
Campus student groups that sponsored the demonstration included Amnesty International, the Darfur Action Group, the Harvard Black Students Association, the Harvard Black Men’s Forum, the Association of Black Harvard Women, BGLTSA, Fuerza Latina, the Harvard AIDS Coalition, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association, according to Wynn.a