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...product be cruelty-free if you are killing an animal? To some chefs the anti-foie gras movement feels like the first step towards demands for completely meat-free menus. Chef Parind Vora, whose Austin, Tex., restaurant Jezebel has been subjected to twice weekly protests by a group called Central Texas Animal Defense, believes that animal rights activists are targeting foie gras because it's a small industry with little resources to fight back. It's also food often associated with the upper crust, allowing the class issues to color the debate...
...several freshmen leading the offensive charge for Harvard women’s soccer thus far this season. Two weeks ago, rookie forward Katherine Sheeleigh was named Ivy League Player of the Week following her hat trick in the Crimson’s 4-0 victory over Central Connecticut State on Sept. 21. —CRIMSON SPORTS STAFF
Outwardly, the main cities in the south are in the hands of Iraqi authorities answering to the central government in Baghdad. In reality, Karbala, Najaf, Basra and the provinces they sit in are now a struggling ground between the Mahdi Army and the Badr Brigade, a rival Shi'ite militia also though to have links to Iran. American forces remained on the sidelines as the Mahdi Army and the Badr Brigade waged bloody campaigns against one another across southern Iraq this summer. On August 28, gunmen from the Mahdi Army and the Badr Brigade battled in the streets of Karbala...
...dozen men and women came tumbling out of two large, metallic-white buses that pulled up beside the French Navy's headquarters on the Place de la Concorde in central Paris. First out onto the sidewalk was a white-haired gentleman with several folders tucked under his arm. He was followed by 11 slightly disoriented people whose appearance of confusion increased as they became surrounded by scores of onlookers appearing out of nowhere. A burly woman with a bright orange "police" armband then began barking "You can't stay here!" at the gawkers, while impressive-looking male colleagues formed...
...convincingly suggests that her story of overcoming struggle belongs in history’s record books as much as Tubman’s does.But what makes “Well-Behaved Women” notable can also make it frustrating. While Ulrich does momentarily forge connections between her three central authors and other memorable women at the beginning of each chapter, the lucid transitions and apparent connections begin to unravel near the end. True, she makes her point clear: there have been many examples of women who have earned the right to have their names alongside those of George Washington...