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...pageant advertisements on campus because they violate the "safe space" policy of various university charters. Feminist ire isn't just directed at pageant organizers either. They also point the finger at contestants who they feel possess a false sense of emancipation. "Their attention-seeking is completely misplaced," says Ruby Buckley, a women's officer at LSE. "They are parading up and down and being leered at by men who have paid money to judge them on how they look." (Read a TIME story about Facebook...
...late William F. Buckley, Jr., himself a graduate of Yale, once famously remarked that he would prefer a government of the first 400 names in the Boston phone book to that of the Harvard faculty. Ancient collegiate rivalries aside, Buckley’s sentiment abides...
Chambliss was forced to remain in campaign mode against Martin because of a state election law that requires a runoff if neither candidate wins 50% plus one additional vote. The results of the Nov. 4 election were Chambliss 49.8%; Martin 46.8% and Libertarian candidate Allen Buckley with 3.4%. Right now Martin trails Chambliss in polls by as many as five percentage points. The Martin campaign says that speculation that Martin is trailing because blacks aren't drawn to support him without Obama in sight is "one of the vicious campaign tactics Chambliss is famous for." Chambliss, for his part...
...which takes its marching orders from Detroit, expects to shed another 4,000 jobs with planned closures of a truck and transmission plant. This downsizing is needed to cope with overcapacity, but it's fostering bad blood between the car maker and its union. "We felt betrayed," says Chris Buckley, president of Canadian Auto Workers local 222, whose membership at GM Canada's assembly complex on Lake Ontario includes workers from the surplus truck plant. "It's never been this bad. We're on the verge of closing our doors...
...bear for the North American industry. "There's a real fear if one of the Detroit Three fails it will threaten the future of the others on both sides of the border," says Jayson Myers, president of Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters, the country's largest trade and industry association. Says Buckley of the CAW: "If GM fails, we'll lose hundreds of thousands of jobs in Canada. What kind of country are we leaving to our children...