Even as the pace of vaccination against COVID-19 has steadily accelerated — hitting an average of 1.3 million doses a day in the last days of January — the frustration
There's little chance Donald Trump will be convicted by the US Senate of inciting an insurgency but his legal troubles won't end with the conclusion of his second impeachment trial.
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Carmen Vázquez, a Force on L.G.B.T.Q. Issues, Dies at 72
Often outspoken, she was a fixture in advocacy groups in San Francisco and New York. She died of Covid-19.
Carmen Vázquez was called âone of the most brilliant activistsâ in the L.G.B.T.Q. rights movement.Credit.National L.G.B.T.Q. Task Force
Published Feb. 5, 2021Updated Feb. 12, 2021
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It was 1996, and President Bill Clinton was running for a second term against Bob Dole, the Republican candidate. In the gay/lesbian/bi/trans world, there was talk of boycotting the election to show displeasure with the center-right politics of compromise that characterized Mr. Clintonâs first term. But Carmen Vázquez was having none of it.
SEOUL, South Korea â A paper by Harvard Law School Japanese legal studies professor J. Mark Ramseyer that claims sex slaves taken by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II were actually recruited, contracted sex workers generated international controversy, academic criticism, and student petitions at Harvard this week.
The paper, âContracting for Sex in the Pacific War,â made headlines across South Korean media and was met with widespread public anger. Ramseyerâs work is set to be published in the March issue of the International Review of Law and Economics. Korean outlets picked up the news after Ramseyerâs paper was featured in a Jan. 28 press release in Sankei Shimbun, a Japanese newspaper.