Word: humaneness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...hard to think in these terms--subtle, private, human. The most visible part of Gay Pride Month at Harvard was the racy, shocking posters put up in the Yard by the Bisexual Gay Lesbian Transgendered and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA), and though I think they had a point, I feel too that the piece of the BGLTSA agenda pursued in these posters was put forward at the cost of humanizing the issue--of confronting homosexuality via your sister, say, or your roommate...
...They were in the spotlight, under a lot of pressure, and a lot of eyes were on them," he adds. "There was not enough emphasis placed on the human elements...
...with body-image problems take steroids. Jim Davis, 29, a human-services manager, told TIME he never took them, even when training for body-building competitions. But Davis says he developed a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder around his workouts. He lifted weights six days a week for at least six years. He worked out even when injured. He adhered to a rigid regimen for every session, and if he changed it, he felt anxious all day. He began to be worried about clothes, and eventually could wear only three shirts, ones that made him look big. He still felt...
...occurred last year in Seattle, when 40,000 protesters from across the ideological map surrounded, shouted down and roundly embarrassed the assembled representatives of the World Trade Organization. In Seattle--a city whose name has since become a political rallying cry akin to "Chicago in 1968"--environmentalists, union members, human-rights crusaders and old-school populists locked their arms around a spinning globe and, at least for a moment, slowed it down...
Juliette Beck, 27, is as close to a bigwig as the movement has, but even she feels like a tiny link in the wired cosmos of antiglobalism. An organizer for Global Exchange, a San Francisco-based human-rights group, Beck arrived in Washington fresh from a 20-city road show that was organized largely via e-mail. "We got housing and food for nine people on the road," she says. "The events and the nonviolence training and the political theater--the Internet made it possible." Beck, who planned to demonstrate in costume along with 20 others in her "affinity group...