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...those things were particularly hard on women, and I was lucky enough to live through the period when sexual harassment first became taken seriously. Harvard was one of the first places to have such an anti-harrasment policy, but I’m afraid that having the policy is just part of solving the problem. It’s certainly not the whole solution...
...Pamir mountain ranges. For centuries, it was part of the main Silk Road highway that connected China to the west; the ancient bazaar city of Osh to this day bears traces of its commercial past. In 751 A.D., near the modern day town of Talas - where it's reported anti-Bakiyev unrest first broke out on Apr. 6 - a vast army sent forth by the Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad defeated an expeditionary force of the Chinese Tang Dynasty. Historians suggest that this decisive battle solidified Central Asia within the orbit of the Muslim cultural world rather than that of China...
...Another irony is that Abhisit's Democrats have traditionally been the party to most strongly advocate having a professional military uninvolved in politics. But their interests have converged in an anti-Thaksin alliance as the ousted leader continues his involvement in politics while in exile, allegedly funding the current protests. The army appears to need Abhisit to stay in power: army chief General Anupong Paochinda is slated to retire in October, and his anointed successor, General Prayuth Chan-ocha, is known to be unsympathetic to Thaksin. Should Abhisit be forced from office by Red Shirt protests and Thaksin's allies...
...Virginia's Center for Politics. "They've been very successful at garnering headlines. What they need to do is prove they can garner votes." Yet to do so entails diving into a political process whose perversion has been an organizing principle for the Tea Party. "They are kind of anti-politics, not just anti-government," Wood says. "They don't seem to be enthusiastic about doing politics the same...
...Meanwhile, the default position for the GOP in the Obama era is no, and while its united recalcitrance failed (barely!) to stop health care, that's likely to make its leaders even less eager to hand the President another big victory. For reasons of anti-regulatory ideology as well as intense pressure from banks and other business lobbies, many Republicans - and some conservative Democrats - are deeply uncomfortable with a financial crackdown in the first place. Senator Bob Corker has been the GOP's leading voice for compromise, even criticizing his own party's intransigence, but he also told me many...