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Just as with the rest of us, his great weakness is hope. He's attracted to it and deeply suspicious of it all the same. It's a reason he's been preoccupied lately by the brief heyday of the Soviet avant-garde in the years right after the October Revolution, before Stalin put his very big foot down and imposed the rule of socialist orthodoxy in all artistic realms. A short episode of utopianism that ended in its own flood of blue tears, those years seem to epitomize for him the absurdity and paradox of politics...
...already complained loudly that any amount of money paid to an operation that helped undermine AIG's viability should get nothing. Edward Libby, the feckless former head of Allstate (ALL) who was brought in to turn AIG around, apparently did not know about the bonuses until recently. In the brief note he sent to the Fed apologizing for the problem he said that the company's hands were tied. The employees getting the money had contracts guaranteeing them the payouts. Members of Congress have already asked whether the agreements were "legal." In a moment of lucidity, Lawrence Summers, a former...
...told TIME. "But we can't give up. I have no alternative but to be here, in this tent." But as of Tuesday morning, the envoys had returned from the Cairo talks without a deal on Shalit's release. Diskin and the other negotiator, Ofer Dekel, are due to brief ministers at a special cabinet meeting Tuesday afternoon...
...sexual stereotyping of the 1950s or in any way a veiled attempt at recreating the “pink ghetto” of generations past; this is merely an attempt at ensuring that boys and girls learn as productively and as efficiently as they can during the brief period in which they acquaint themselves with their changing bodies and changing selves. For the first time ever, formerly sexless children are suddenly curious about members of the opposite sex, and such curiosity is confusing, disorienting, and distracting, at least for the first year or so. In a classroom setting, it goes...
...whole, and the schools “back then” did not create the awful sexual stereotypes; they merely reinforced them. And, since we no longer live in a society that promotes blatant sexism, we cannot therefore assume that single-sex classrooms—especially for periods as brief as a few years—could revive the disparate nature of gender relations that for so long defined this country...