Word: lambda
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...This weekend, LGBT students, alumni, faculty, and staff will celebrate the past, present, and future of LGBT life at Harvard. Going through boxes of old Lambda materials, we realized how different this organization was in its early years. Reading the decades-old banners from student rallies, we sensed the urgency that pushed students in the 1970’s and 1980’s to organize and demand an end to harassment and discrimination at Harvard. In its early days, Lambda worked with other members of the community, pushing the university to adopt a nondiscrimination policy that protected people...
...less glamorous duties that came along with joining the board of Lambda, Harvard Law School’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) organization, was the task of cleaning up the office. Lambda was founded as the Committee on Gay Legal Issues 30 years ago. If the state of the office told us anything, it was that three decades of Lambda leadership had never thrown away a single old poster, flier, banner, or note. But these piles were more than just an impediment to us. Sorting through what some might take to be junk, we discovered an archive?...
...Through the efforts of these law students and of the LGBT community at large, the law school was certainly more bearable for sexual minorities in this decade than when Lambda was founded. However, with these improvements, the sense of urgency so present in the early days of Lambda has waned somewhat. The focus of Lambda has shifted to social and community building events, with activism and political organization taking more of a backseat role. While we have a yearly conference addressing cutting edge LGBT legal issues, it tends to be more academic than rabble-rousing...
Olive oil $182 1,000-mL gift pack of Lambda...
...TEST Our man samples some of the costliest comestibles [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] THE PRICE $120 24-oz. bottle of Samuel Adams Utopias beer $50 3-lb. container of the Best Butter on Earth $182 A set of two 500-mL bottles of Lambda olive oil WHY IT COSTS SO MUCH The brandy-colored beverage is a blend of malts aged in wood, then finished in sherry and Madeira casks The Five Star Butter Co. makes its lavish 83%-butterfat product from fresh, unpasteurized milk Hand-extracted from Koroneiki olives, the low-acidity...