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...dawn curfew in the aftermath of a hurricane. To encourage more people to evacuate, the emergency plan makes provisions to help evacuate pets on the same buses used to evacuate residents, provided their owners have cages for them. Many people stayed behind during Katrina because they refused to abandon their pets...
...some of its European partners over what a diplomatic solution might entail - an emerging consensus in European policy circles, as well as among self-styled ?realists? on both sides of the aisle on Capitol Hill, holds that a diplomatic solution to the crisis requires that the U.S. abandon its refusal to negotiate directly with Tehran...
...talking, right-wing Japanese politicians to confirm Korea's worst fears that the country is just itching to press its claims. "There are probably no valuable resources under the islands," concedes Shigeru Ishiba, a prominent conservative Japanese parliamentarian. "So it's a piece of rock." Nevertheless, Japan can't abandon this particular piece of rock, Ishiba insists, because such "matters of territory are about national sovereignty...
...UC’s second option is to abandon its own vetting process completely and open funding to all CCL-approved student groups. Opponents argue that decisions about funding should be based on the judgement of elected representatives, not administrators. This position is unnecessarily stubborn; what the UC might give up in the power to vet student groups for non-discrimination, it would gain in consistency and coherence. When CCL approves a student group, it considers its membership policies with respect to the College’s non-discrimination policy and federal law, which makes exceptions for single-sex singing...
...notion that being a complete woman necessarily entails picking a career over children is the pitfall of feminism today. In reality, it is not the society of patriarchy that leads women to abandon their careers; quite the opposite, the problem lies in the darker side of feminist culture, which tells women that they are wasting themselves if they are merely mothers. This view ignores the fact that for most of these women, giving up jobs is a choice...