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...urged Japanese women to have more children (the current fertility rate is 1.29 children per woman), appealing to traditional family values while also promising to boost child-care support. But his administration has still managed to appear insensitive and out of touch on the issue. In a Jan. 27 speech exhorting them to have more children, Health Minister Hakuo Yanagisawa referred to Japanese women as "baby-making machines." The minister quickly apologized, but Abe's critics seized on the incident-and on Abe's refusal to fire Yanagisawa-as evidence that the administration can't handle the demographic issue...
...ruins of Chachabamba appear almost immediately, but the first real reward comes at the four-hour mark: Winay Wayna, the site of an ancient Incan settlement. Pause a while here to take in the terraces cut precariously into the mountainside, but remember that this is a mere dress rehearsal for the splendor that awaits...
...Matthew L. Sundquist ’09, the hotline represents early progress on a key campaign promise—teaching reform. According to Petersen, the goal of effecting pedagogical improvement was particularly well-received in his door-to-door campaign visits. And indeed, for their part, students do appear to recognize the need for the new program. Timothy D. Turner ’09—who said he had taken several “TF-heavy” courses during his three semesters at Harvard, including Social Analysis 10, Economics 1010a, and a Science B Core—said...
Some of the intentions of FemSex appear perfectly reasonable—to be sure, women should be aware of their sexuality—but the course overindulges in hyperbole. It descends into sensationalism, overestimating the oppression of modern female sexuality. What’s more, its method of ensuring sexual liberation is tiresome...
...Franken has been running for office since the late '70s, when he would appear on SNL's Weekend Update segment and announced, "Vote for me, Al Franken. You'll be glad you did!" In his possibly ironic role as a relentless self-promoter, he proclaimed the 1980s "the Al Franken Decade." In 1999 he published Why Not Me?: The Inside Story of the Making and Unmaking of the Franken Presidency, the myopically prophetic account of how he won the 2000 election and shortly thereafter lost the presidency (though his attempt to personally kill Saddam Hussein sounds like a natural poll...