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...wake of his surprising 2004 victory - which many attributed to the incumbent Popular Party government's mishandling of the aftermath of the March 11, 2004, Madrid bombings - the little-known Socialist leader made waves with his announcement of an immediate withdrawal of Spanish troops from Iraq. But the sweeping agenda of progressive social policy is what has truly marked Zapatero's term. He pushed through major women's-rights legislation, including parity in electoral lists, equal-pay provisions, and a comprehensive anti-domestic-violence law in a country still suffering the ill effects of machismo. An "express divorce...
...Iraq will have to come from U.S. Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, who arrived Wednesday in Turkey for talks. His visit had been planned before the latest fighting, but before leaving India for Turkey, Gates indicated that diffusing the crisis in Kurdistan was now at the top of his agenda. He told reporters that "it's very important that the Turks make this operation as short as possible and then leave. They have to be mindful of Iraqi sovereignty." And, putting a U.S. timetable on Turkish operations for the first time, Gates said, "I measure quick in terms of days...
...voters were mobilized. Timothy P. McCarthy ’93, a lecturer on History and Literature and Public Policy and a member of Barack Obama’s National LGBT Leadership Task Force, put it best: “Republicans made Democrats look like the vessel for the homosexual agenda...
...Lester says, an institutionalized principle at the ART, he questions whether “non-traditional” casting, in which minority actors fill traditionally white roles, is particularly effective anymore. “At a time when racial politics were very much at the forefront of the political agenda, it made a great deal of sense to provoke audiences into thinking about plays in new ways by mixing up the racial politics of the casting,” Lester says. But that time, he says, has passed. “Frankly, once an idea reaches Broadway, it?...
...seemed more eager to prove how similar they were on policy. Asked how she would differ from Obama on the economy, an issue which has become the top priority for voters, Clinton began: "I would agree with a lot that Senator Obama just said, because it is the Democratic agenda." And what about that border fence, for which they both voted? "Well, this is an area where Senator Clinton and I almost entirely agree," Obama said, as he echoed Clinton's argument for more sensitivity to the opinions of local communities...