NEWS LITE : AIDS ACTIVIST CALLS YALE'S REJECTION HOMOPHOBIC.Larry Kramer Larry Kramer (born June 25 1935 in Bridgeport, Connecticut), is an American playwright, author, public health advocate and gay rights activist. He was nominated for an Academy Award, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and was twice a recipient of an Obie Award. , playwright and in-your-face AIDS activist, is in Yale University's face now. The 1957 graduate is accusing the Ivy League Ivy League Group of eight universities in the northeastern U.S., high in academic and social prestige, that are members of an athletic conference for intercollegiate gridiron football dating to the 1870s. school of homophobia for rejecting his multimillion-dollar offer to endow a professorship in gay studies. Kramer, 61, who helped create the Gay Men's Health Crisis The Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) is a non-profit, volunteer-supported and community-based AIDS service organization that has led the United States in the fight against AIDS. support organization in 1981 and founded the confrontational AIDS activist group Aids Coalition To Unleash Power in 1987, said he gave Yale about a dozen proposals and all were dismissed. In a letter to Kramer, Provost Alison Richard said gay and lesbian studies is too narrow a field for a permanent professorship. Yale also said that there is a freeze on faculty hiring. Allergy not stopping pet owners When people discover that something in the house is making them sick, they get rid of it, right? Guess again. Not when that something is a dog or cat, a study of 341 adults in Vancouver, British Columbia British Columbia, province (2001 pop. 3,907,738), 366,255 sq mi (948,600 sq km), including 6,976 sq mi (18,068 sq km) of water surface, W Canada. Geography , has reported. Many people would apparently rather suffer than part with the one member of the family who bestows unconditional love This article is about concept of unconditional love. For other uses, see Unconditional love (disambiguation). Unconditional love is a concept that means showing love towards someone regardless of his or her actions or beliefs. . Each person studied by Dr. Stanley Coren, a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia Locations Vancouver The Vancouver campus is located at Point Grey, a twenty-minute drive from downtown Vancouver. It is near several beaches and has views of the North Shore mountains. The 7. , had been found to be allergic to dogs or cats, and each had been advised by a doctor to cease sharing living quarters with a pet. But barely one person in five complied with these instructions. And 122 of the people studied had been found to be allergic to pets long enough ago for the animal they had been living with at the time to have died. But 70 percent had replaced the dead pet with a new dog or cat. Coren, who reported his findings in a letter in The British Medical Journal The British Medical Journal, or BMJ, is one of the most popular and widely-read peer-reviewed general medical journals in the world.[2] It is published by the BMJ Publishing Group Ltd (owned by the British Medical Association), whose other , concluded: ``Apparently many people find pets sufficiently important to their lifestyle that they are willing to ignore both chronic allergic symptoms and specific medical advice in order to continue living with them.'' Man denies effort to threaten model A man pleaded innocent to charges he attempted to extort To compel or coerce, as in a confession or information, by any means serving to overcome the other's power of resistance, thus making the confession or admission involuntary. To gain by wrongful methods; to obtain in an unlawful manner, as in to compel payments by means of threats of money from model Elle Macpherson by threatening to circulate photos of her on the Internet and expose a secret about her. William Ryan Holt Born May 28, 1971, Holt was convicted of attempting to extort supermodel Elle Macpherson. Attempted Extortion of Elle Macpherson On July 12th and 23rd of 1997, William Ryan Holt and his accomplice Michael Mischler burglarized Macpherson's Los Angeles home while she was away on , 26, of Long Beach pleaded innocent Tuesday to one count of involving a threatening letter of extortion and one count of attempted extortion. He was held on $100,000 bail. Also charged in the alleged scheme was Michael Robert Mischler, 29, of Lomita. Mischler was in court Tuesday, but did not enter a plea because he wanted to hire a private attorney. Mischler was charged with two counts of first-degree residential burglary, three counts involving a threatening letter of extortion and three counts of attempted extortion. He was held on $300,000 bail. According to the complaint, Mischler allegedly broke into Macpherson's house and trailer coach June 12 and June 23. On the second occasion, he is accused of delivering a letter threatening to expose a secret affecting her and demanded money in exchange for not putting photographs on the World Wide Web. The complaint says Mischler sent a similar letter July 1 and July 3 with the same alleged threats, along with a threat of harming Macpherson and someone else if she did not give them money. Holt allegedly joined Mischler in criminal acts July 3, the complaint said. No details were provided on where the alleged crimes occurred. They were investigated by a police detective from the Hollywood area. Madonna offspring gets ungilded cage Madonna's daughter is safe and sound behind bars. The star's fifth-floor New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of apartment was fitted Tuesday with window guards to keep her 9-month-old daughter, Lourdes, from falling out. ``The window gates are up,'' said her spokeswoman, Liz Rosenberg. ``I resent her being portrayed as an irresponsible mother.'' New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. requires that windows in homes with small children be protected with the steel, cagelike bars. Last month, City Councilman Kenneth Fisher noticed in a newspaper photo that there weren't any window bars in Madonna's apartment. Fisher sent a letter congratulating Madonna on her beautiful baby but warning that it wasn't too soon to start thinking about installing the guards. The Health Department, which enforces the law, followed up with a letter. The building's co-op board could have faced a fine up to $1,000 if the guards weren't installed. ``I was happy to find out that Madonna . . . has strong maternal instincts,'' Fisher said Wednesday. CAPTION(S): 3 Photos PHOTO (1) In space, but not lost Mars Pathfinder Project scientist Matthew Golombek, left, greets actress June Lockhart on Wednesday at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory “JPL” redirects here. For other uses, see JPL (disambiguation). Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a NASA research center located in the cities of Pasadena and La Cañada Flintridge, near Los Angeles, California, USA. in Pasadena. Lockhart played matriarch of the ill-fated Robinson family on the 1960s television program ``Lost in Space.'' (2) MacPherson (3) Kramer |
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