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...mommy wars are back too. In the week since that meeting, the cacophony over whether Dati is an icon or a traitor to working women has dominated call-in shows, newspapers and online news sites here. The polling company IFOP found that of the 56% of people who condemned Dati's decision, most were women. Maya Surduts of the National Collective for the Rights of Women called Dati's decision a "scandal," arguing that employers could use it to "put intolerable pressure on women" to cut short their maternity leave - enshrined in French law as 16 weeks' paid leave. Florence...
Three days after the murder, the Sunday Leader published an editorial written as if by Wickrematunge's spirit: "I hope my assassination will be seen not as a defeat of freedom but an inspiration for those who survive to step up their efforts." His mourners took up that call to action and turned his funeral procession into a mass protest through the streets of Colombo. The pen is powerful, but sometimes it isn't enough...
...time and then succeeded Rubin. Now the two will be reunited: Summers will head the National Economic Council at the White House while Geithner runs Treasury. Washington being what it is - even in the midst of an economic crisis, people gossip - there has been much speculation about who will call the economic shots in the new Administration: Summers or Geithner...
...Most of them I can't call him in front of you. You know, a bit rude." - Prince William, on the nicknames he calls Prince Harry, during an an interview with Matt Lauer, Dateline, June...
...Granny, I've got to go. Send my love to the corgis and Grandpa. I've got to go...God Save you, yeah, that's great." - Imitating a call to his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, on the same 2006 video that captured his controversial racial remarks...