Word: activists
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...down. Polls show two-thirds of the public approve of the union (though a similar proportion still don't want her to be Queen). He has modernized his office and pays income tax voluntarily. His focus on what we will hand down to future generations makes him an environmental activist, but a constitutional conservative. So it may be that when the time comes, Charles will retreat into a decorum as impervious and uninspiring as his mother's. Which may help explain why he is a workaholic now. The clock is ticking - and Charles is an old soul in a hurry...
...much for your article on the lack of effort being made to utilize the intelligence and abilities of Japanese women [Oct. 10]. I am a Canadian woman teaching English in Japan, and I was shocked by how patriarchal Japanese society is. Your story quoted a women's rights activist as saying, "Women must work twice as hard as men to advance their careers because of prejudices within Japanese companies ... And then they have to go home and work three times as hard there." Japanese women work until their backs are literally bent to the ground and get no thanks from...
...radish bracelet, strawberry necklace and lettuce-leaf skirt assembled from her parents' Victory garden. It was the beginning of a lifetime of involvement with fresh foods. Chez Panisse, the restaurant she opened in Berkeley, Calif., in 1971, ranks among the best in the country. As a chef and food activist, she "may be the most influential figure in the past 30 years of the American kitchen," says Gourmet magazine. Waters, 61, talked with TIME's BARBARA ISENBERG about why consuming and appreciating natural foods is so important...
...prosecutions of politicians and businessmen. And a special commission was established to look into corruption in the police force. In recent months, however, prosecutions against corruption have dried up, and the police commission's recommendations have yet to be implemented. "Abdullah has appeared strangely indecisive," says human-rights activist S. Arulchelvam. "He speaks the reform language, but his reforms have run out of steam...
...over. The involved students are in the very early planning stages of a new advocacy group that will address student life issues, QUAD member Gordon T. Kraft-Todd ’07 wrote in an e-mail. “We’d be less official and more activist-y,” said Kouskalis. “This library thing sort of proves that sometimes things like this are effective...