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Council members shouted demands for the names of sources and locations. They expressed indignation at the mention of pro-Israel Bedouin and the report that some Bedouin even cheered for Algeria (Egypt's fiercest soccer rival) during the final round of the African Cup of Nations. Several council members launched into wider diatribes about U.S. policy in the Middle East and Israeli conspiracies in the Sinai. But most of all, they wanted the reporter to apologize for tarnishing Sinai's name. "You interviewed smugglers. And those people are outlaws," said a council member, Abdel Hamid Salem. "President Mubarak...
...same treatment as boys in school, especially around math and science. Reviving Ophelia, about self-esteem in young women, was on the best-seller list for three years. And of course there was the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas drama on television, in which people saw on their screens an African-American woman's charges against Thomas utterly dismissed. That produced a huge backlash, which prompted a record number of women to run for Congress. So you had this feminist ferment in the early- and mid-1990s that gave rise to what was the girl-power movement...
...group called Americans United for Change has been running spots in as many as 17 districts, targeting African-American voters with a pro-reform message. Doctors for America, a pro-Obama group of physicians, is also expected to advertise, while MoveOn.org has gone up with a six-figure national cable-television buy that compares health care reform to the struggle for civil rights. "Now is the time for historic action," the ad proclaims...
Amnesty International may be best known to American audiences for bringing to light horror stories abroad such as the disappearance of political activists in Argentina or the abysmal conditions inside South African prisons under apartheid. But in a new report on pregnancy and childbirth care in the U.S., Amnesty details the maternal-health care crisis in this country as part of a systemic violation of women's rights...
...some, it’s more complicated. Until recently, popular African-American magazines like Ebony featured bleaching products to lighten dark skin, and they are still popular in African-American grocery stores in addition to Latin American, Caribbean, and Asian ones. Celebrities of color like Sammy Sosa have become whiter over time. This year, Senate majority leader Harry Reid brought attention to his belief that President Barack Obama was able to be elected as an African-American for his light skin. While his comment was certainly a political faux pas, a study by the University of Chicago?...