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...girls and one-third straight viewership," he says. Of course, gay themes aren't restricted to gay networks. Mainstream TV's attitude toward gays started growing up in 1997, when American comic Ellen DeGeneres came out of the closet in her self-titled sitcom. "It was an important lesson for advertisers and producers who are naturally cautious and who saw that people weren't freaking out, they were kind of interested," says Joshua Gamson, an author and sociology professor at the University of San Francisco. At the same time, advertisers began targeting gay audiences as members of a high-spending...
...between Muslims and some of their neighbors since Sept. 11. German counterterrorism investigators are still smarting over revelations that some of the al-Qaeda operatives involved in those attacks masqueraded for years as foreign students in Hamburg. They're determined not to let the same thing happen again. "The lesson of Sept. 11 is that we didn't look close enough," says Jürgen Roters, president of the Greater Cologne Regional Government, which supervises Bonn schools. "We have evidence that fundamentalist Islamic doctrine is being spread [at King Fahd], that violence is being promoted, and that there are activists...
When Dan Thanh T. Nguyen ’06 takes the T home to her old neighborhood in Dorchester twice a week, she’s not lugging her laundry or seeking home-cooked refuge from the dining hall. Instead, she brings lesson plans and games to share with her students who meet at the Grover Cleveland Middle School, just as 12 years ago a Boston Youth Refugee Enrichment (BRYE) volunteer...
...spent 15 minutes on it and got really frustrated, all her students could muster was “confu-.” Later that week, in a moment Nguyen calls a “highlight,” her student Tony was banging on a desk during a lesson. When asked why, Tony told Nguyen “I’m confused...
...rich get richer and the poor get poorer—a truism since the dawn of civilization—but nowhere more evident than in the Massachusetts housing market since the state abolished rent control in 1994. A short history lesson: for years the powerful real estate industry had wanted to end rent control, but real estate tycoons and wealthy companies looking to make even bigger profits were not exactly garnering sympathy. Enter a powerful public relations campaign, in which every elderly widow or recent immigrant dependent on renting part of their home to make ends meet was marched before...