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Feminism is hardly the culprit behind the hypersexualization of young women. The goal of second-wave feminism was not—as Wagley suggests—to allow for the proliferation of sexually explicit media and self-exploitation à la “Girls Gone Wild.” In fact, most feminists, including Ariel Levy, would concur that the pressure to conform to a sexual script is a problem that ought to be addressed not by restricting sex, but by removing stigmas surrounding sexual behavior, which includes abstinence, promiscuity, and everything in between. Rather than blaming feminism...
President Obama's Oct. 24 decision to officially declare the H1N1 swine-flu virus a national emergency came with a speedy caveat: Don't panic. The declaration was just a formality, the White House explained, a way to allow hospitals to circumvent unnecessary restrictions in order to bring about quicker, more effective swine-flu treatment. Yes, H1N1 cases are on the rise - 46 of the 50 states are experiencing widespread influenza activity, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - but it's hardly a horrific doomsday scenario and nothing like the movie Outbreak...
...nightmare began in earnest after the Saudi government banished Osama from the kingdom for railing against Riyadh's decision to allow American soldiers on Saudi soil to repel Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait. From the new family home in Sudan, while Osama plotted to overthrow the Saudi monarchy and the American government, Omar noticed some dangerous new arrivals in their Khartoum neighborhood, including Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of an Egyptian Islamist movement who would become al-Qaeda's second-in-command. When members of another extremist group raped one of Omar's male friends, al-Zawahiri took justice...
...victims fear that Karadzic's trial will play out similarly to that of former Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic, who used repeated stall tactics to drag out his proceedings for three years before eventually dying in custody. Many of the problems stemmed from the decision by the tribunal to allow Milosevic to defend himself - he used the court as a soapbox, delivering rambling political speeches. Karadzic, who is also representing himself, is now doing his best to sabotage his own trial and undermine the legitimacy of the tribunal. (See pictures from 2006 of the last Albanian community in Serbia...
...budget, and will not be reported in subsequent years, meaning that the long-term deficit that Smith has emphasized in a series of faculty meetings and community gatherings remains a concern. But Smith wrote in the report Friday that the “positive results from [Fiscal Year] 09 allow us more time to implement...strategies so that we can bring our finances back into balance.” In the meantime, it appeared from the report that Smith’s calls for cost-cutting measures last spring, when deficit estimates ran as high as $220 million over...