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...seemingly fulfilling options have their limits; for example, while my own mother is a typical superwoman, I witnessed firsthand the career sacrifices she made in order to accommodate her family above all else. Furthermore, even in the U.S., many families cannot subsist on one income. While the progressive agenda of America’s Second Wave feminists during the 1960s and 1970s boldly paved the way for the possibility of such “superwomen,” today, we fail to recognize the full continuum of choices and options that are open to young females. Particularly at Harvard, where...
...after defeating the Persians, Sparta and Athens were at odds. But just as he is called “father of history,” Herodotus has also been called “father of lies.” Every audience must understand that each historian has an ideological agenda, and this film is no exception...
Carrying out Rice's agenda is a handpicked team of weathered foreign service officers who have spent their careers troubleshooting and cutting deals in some of the most remote capitals of the world--the State Department's Hellhole Gang. "They've all been tested on the front lines," Rice told TIME. "I tend to like people around me who served in really difficult posts. It's a mark of character. It's a mark of toughness. It's a mark of being able to operate under difficult circumstances and not lose your perspective...
...left unfinished and forge ahead with new initiatives that will keep Harvard’s library system at the forefront of academia well into the future. Increasing the ease of accessing Harvard’s formidable collections has always been at the forefront of Verba’s agenda, and it must remain a central goal. In recent years, the process of searching Harvard’s resources has improved tremendously, and HOLLIS—HUL’s online collection search tool—has grown into an indispensable aid. Unfortunately, the resources contained in the many electronic databases...
...Yokota tell of their daughter, snatched near her home at the age of 13 by North Korean agents, never to be seen by her family again. But under Abe the quarter-century old kidnappings are increasingly taking precedence over the North Korean nuclear program on Japan's foreign policy agenda - and that is not healthy. His administration has connected Japan's tough sanctions against North Korean trade not to nuclear weapons, but to the kidnappings. Tsuyoshi Takagi, chairman of the Japanese Diet's special committee on abductions, recently told TIME that the kidnappings actually present a more significant danger...