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Last week, news outlets around the world announced that Madonna was reinventing herself, yet again. Although she has not abandoned using sex and religion to get attention, she has found a new way to drum up record sales: charity. The former material girl was to adopt a one-year-old boy from Malawi, an African country with one million children orphaned by the AIDS epidemic.Only 24 hours after this story broke, however, Madonna’s publicist insisted that the performer was not so much adopting one child but “kind of adopting an entire country of children...
...have realized that the hijab - now more widespread than ever - is, for Islamicist puritans, the first step on a path leading to the burqa, where even the eyes are gauzed over. I have interviewed young women who say they feel so wanton wearing only a headscarf that they will adopt the niqab. Now even 6-year-olds are put into hijabs. Western culture - it is true - is wildly sexualized and lacking in restraint. But there are ways to avoid falling into that pit without withdrawing into the darkness of a niqab. The robe is a physical manifestation of the pernicious...
...having Saturday Night Live's Lorne Michaels as executive producer? It's great. He has all this experience with comedy, and he doesn't have any bad habits or fears about the half-hour show. No one's going to make us adopt a little black kid if the ratings start...
...Dallas, Mayor Laura Miller, a feisty former journalist, isn't buying that argument. The goal of the coalition she helped form with major muscle from Houston--Texas Citizens for Climate Protection--is not to stop the plants, she says, but to make TXU adopt cleaner technologies like gasification. Tampa, she points out with irritation, buys its clean-coal-compatible coke in Houston, after all. So far, she has won over 17 cities and hopes to raise nearly $500,000 to hire the best air-modeling experts and lawyers for the battle. She has no other choice than to fight...
...that employees can take home a living wage and workplace conditions can be adequate.But the consortium’s board has clarified that the endorsement is a recommendation, not an obligation. “It’s not a requirement that any school affiliated with the WRC adopt any policy beyond the basic code of conduct,” said an assistant director of policy and communications at the WRC, Nancy E. Steffan.Indeed, eight months after the board’s endorsement, Harvard has yet to sign on to the DSP.“We’ve been...