A city of contrasts, New Haven is a mix of colonial history, Ivy League college town, and past-its-prime industrial center. Once an important manufacturing center, it is known today as the home of prestigious Yale University.
With the new alliance, GLAAD, already a powerful watchdog group, will begin to monitor online media and build contacts with the tech community. GLAAD focuses on getting fair representations of gays and lesbians in film, television, and the news. Now it will also be watching cyberspace.
Profile: Gulf Co-operation Council. The Gulf Co-operation Council, or GCC, is a loose political and economic alliance made up of six Gulf states. It aims to boost economic cooperation between members and, through collective security, to guard against any threat from neighbouring states and from Islamic extremism. OVERVIEW.