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Jeffrey was active this year in one of the council's few political efforts, heading an ad-hoc committee whose goal was to pressure the administration into divesting its South Africa-related stocks...
Just because the decisions of two Kinko's employees became ad hoc company policy does not make their action worthy of public censure. That the poster was anti-abortion and not anti-gay is irrelevant. One would be hard pressed to convince someone who is Black to print an anti-Catholic poster at the Ku Klux Klan's behest...
...hoc counterprotest formed by 2 p.m. and soon swelled to a noticeably greater size than the conservative group...
...group of mostly white males who identify themselves as straight, AALARM does not have much experience in recognizing institutionalized discrimination. Take it from a group of people who are old hands at being discriminated against--this wasn't it. Thomas B. Watson '91 Chair of an ad hoc committee of Defeat Homophobia
...streets Cesar is reportedly known as the "Pope of Pot," high priest of the Church of the Realized Fantasy, whose ad hoc philosophy preaches the evil of money and the virtue of easy access to sex and drugs. For all Cesar's fulminations against hard cash, however, he certainly did not spurn it. Police say that, by Cesar's own estimate, the pot line netted $40,000 a day, enough for him to purchase a luxury Eastside Manhattan apartment and a mansion in New Jersey...