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...come out and to work against discrimination. "There was a choice to make," he says, "whether you feel threatened and live your life with misery, or you live with courage." In 2001, Pant and a few friends organized the Blue Diamond Society - named after the Diamond Sutra, a well-known translation of Buddhist teachings emphasizing compassion - to distribute information about HIV. The group later began documenting human-rights abuses against gay people, and its members sued to overturn Nepal's law criminalizing homosexuality. In December 2007, Nepal's Supreme Court ruled in their favor. Four months later, Pant...
Visitors to the Basilica of the National Shrine in northeast Washington often do a double take when they see Newt Gingrich and his familiar shock of white hair slip into a pew for the noon Mass on Sundays. The former Speaker of the House is known for many things, but religious zeal is not one of them. In fact, the social conservatives who fueled his Republican revolution in 1994 often complained about Gingrich's lack of interest in issues like abortion or school prayer...
...Caracas Par for the Course Hugo Chávez is not a fan of golf. Since the Venezuelan President derided the "bourgeois sport" on state television last month, his supporters have rallied to close two of the nation's best-known courses and use the land for housing, according to the New York Times. "I respect all sports," Chávez declared. "But there are sports, and there are sports...
...fall 2007, I found myself on the 19th floor of the Manhattan skyscraper known as the Lipstick Building, listening to Bernie Madoff explain to me how he made money. This was in preparation for a discussion called the Future of the Stock Market that I was moderating; Madoff was a participant. (It's a big hit on YouTube - just Google "Madoff video.") Sadly, he didn't happen to mention the now infamous Ponzi scheme he was running two floors below us. At issue was his legit business, a brokerage that had long been one of the biggest marketmakers (the firms...
Advocate: 1. The Harvard Advocate, a literary magazine that has been known to disseminate the cocaine-induced ramblings of the hipster upper crust. 2. Crumbling wood-frame structure behind Noch’s which may or may not still be standing by the time you graduate...