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Ideas for a spot called "The World Without America," designed to combat the "rampant anti-Americanism" that Doughty Street says has taken hold in Britain, included a closing shot of the Statue of Liberty swathed in a burqa. The winning entry is based on mocked-up newscasts from earlier decades, reporting events that might have occurred without the benign influence of the U.S. A final screen flashes a selection of great American contributions to civilization: "A free Afghanistan," "Dishwasher" and "Elvis Presley." After spoofs of the ad sprouted on YouTube--"Slavery," "Nuclear Bomb" and "Vietnam War," retorted one--the original...
...University Professor Laurel Ulrich sees a return to an earlier time: “This is exactly the thing that was developing in the 60s—self-help groups, meeting informally and unofficially. People in the health field thought that women in the feminist movement were kind of anti-baby, anti-body.” The fact still remains that women who have sex frequently, or with many partners, are often considered at best physically unclean and at worst, somehow mentally or emotionally deficient. Grizzle references a “Twilight Zone” within which these women allegedly...
...about those condoms. They, along with the baskets of dental dams next to the push-pins at the Women’s Center, the stay-at-home-or-work debate, and the final club problem, are perennial favorites in the inter-feminist and anti-feminist conversation. The institutions are relatively innocuous compared to the implications made by the arguments, built precariously upon them, that often stand in for actual issues of substance. These imperfect scapegoats are, in many ways, an indication of the luxury feminists at Harvard enjoy: However snide and insidious is the sexism that feminists say they face...
...forward-thinking person because she could like me not just despite, but for my lovable gayness. Similarly, I have some straight friends who, having several gay friends and being politically liberal, feel they’ve cleared their names enough to indulge in “ironically” anti-gay humor, which often consists of simply referencing a person’s homosexuality, but without actually forming a witticism...
...from the government to cooperate." He says Pakistanis are offering $1,000 stipends to commanders who join the Taliban, that he's been approached himself. And the Kabul government's counter-offer to work against the Taliban? $10. "There's no incentive," he says repeatedly. He says that the anti-government fighters have varying motivations. "Sixty to seventy percent are fighting for the money," he says. "Thirty to forty percent are fighting for Islam...