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Admittedly, the op-ed succeeded at one thing: application of stereotypes. The penultimate paragraph invites readers to, “[w]atch how quickly [women] can figure out that marked-down price of any clothing item during a sale.” Comments on this jewel are hardly necessary...

Author: By Jan Zilinsky | Title: RE: Summers’ Theory of Inequality | 2/4/2010 | See Source »

...Meritorious Work were handed out to 200,000 people who have been employed for 25 years at no more than two different private companies. Those who stayed home to stem the decline of France's birth rate were not forgotten. Mothers of five legitimate children received the Bronze ATCH Medal of the French Family. Criteria for winning this award were somewhat less severe for mothers who received gold medals for producing ten children for France, with no questions asked about the fathers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Medal Mania | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

...WHITE WITCH (439 pp.)-Elizabefh Goudge-Coward-McCann ($4.95). "0 boro Duvel atch' pa leste!" cried Froniga to Yoben-meaning, in Romany, "The great Lord be on you!" Then Froniga "came into his arms with the simplicity of a child." But, as usual, Yoben held his fire. "I am a man to whom the love of woman is forbidden," this stern gypsy tinker had told Froniga, and try as she would to penetrate his enigma with darts from "her long-tailed dark eyes," Yoben was mute and cold as old pewter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Play, Gypsies! | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

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