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...Gender equality has come a long way at Old Boys’ Club Harvard, but there are a certain number of female undergrads who just aren’t ready to give up the fight. Unless you’re a guy who is willing to always be spoken down to, always be wrong, and regularly be mocked in public, stay away from these confidence-killing, ego maniac future litigators and politicians...
...played with many of the biggest names in jazz history. It must be hard to choose, but does anyone particularly stand out in your memory? Dinah Washington and Sarah Vaughan - I have to mention them. They gave me a certain feeling I hadn't had, being raised in the Catholic church. Dinah Washington - she was a totally different thing that I wasn't used to hearing. And Sarah Vaughan, I used to get goosebumps every night playing with...
While protesters in certain states may have the right to carry weapons to spots near presidential visits - and the Secret Service may blanket the President with protection - Petro says the guns' presence changes the atmosphere surrounding such events. "They're intimidating people like it's a western saloon," he says. And the weapons could turn a verbal clash between demonstrators into a shoot-out. "In a heated atmosphere," Petro argues, "it's a recipe for disaster." Most critical, according to Petro, author of Standing Next to History: An Agent's Life Inside the Secret Service, is the message the guns...
...There are plenty of Asian voices that might otherwise remain unheard. "Without the ALR it would be impossible, unless you had a really a deep interest in a certain country, to read many of these authors," says Montreal-based Filipino author Miguel Syjuco, who had never been published internationally until his short story "Leaves in the Rain: Redux" first came to light in an ALR issue. (His unpublished novel Ilustrado won the Man Asian Literary Prize last year.) "It's opened up a channel," he says. "It's like the Panama Canal...
...regimes across the globe: Solidarity in Poland, the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, the antiapartheid movement in South Africa, the end of dictatorships in South Korea, Mongolia and Taiwan. Even the extinguished idealism of student protesters in Tiananmen or the monks in Burma drew succor from the example of a certain Filipino homemaker's bravery - a woman who herself almost inadvertently assumed the mantle of Mohandas Gandhi after the assassination of her political-dissident husband in 1983. "Cory Aquino's struggle for and success at fortifying constitutional democracy in the Philippines," says Anwar Ibrahim, the Malaysian opposition leader...