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...fact, the very word crisis, while suitably dramatic, seems somehow wrong for this generation's experience. Unlike their mothers and unlike the men in their lives, this cohort of women is creating a new model for what midlife might look like. Researchers have found that the most profound difference in attitude between men and women at middle age is that women are twice as likely to be hopeful about the future. Women get to wrestle their hormones through a Change of Life; but however disruptive menopause may be for some women, the changes that matter most are often more psychic...
...market that many established companies haven't figured out or are scared to talk to. "Marketers are obsessed with 16-to-24-year-olds while substantially ignoring the largest, richest cohort of women in the history of humanity," marvels Bob Garfield, advertising critic for Advertising Age. "It's bizarre how focused people are on children when the baby boom is just sitting there with hundreds of billions of dollars of discretionary income and very few kids left in the house to spend it on." Women make the majority of purchasing decisions. "The marketers I talked to for my research...
...fetid refugee camps in Guinea that were not a sustainable solution to begin with. Refugees from Darfur are flowing into Chad, piling into bursting refugee camps that cannot even ensure basic hygiene. Human security, too, is not guaranteed. Poorly-drawn African borders have ensured the Janjaweed a trans-national cohort of persecutors. Even in Chad, women are beaten and raped as they leave the camps in search of the water and firewood necessary to cook the international food aid. What we have now is not only expensive, but it isnít even working...
...everything changed. My cynicism about organized religion intensified even more. Because of some religious fundamentalists, part of my city was gone forever. And because of that event, religious fundamentalism of a surprisingly similar ilk captured the heart of our country. The use of religion by Bush and his cohort to manipulate America is one of the most appalling phenomena I have ever witnessed. It ate away at me, filled me with disgust. The opiate of the masses indeed, I thought...
Brian M. Wescott ’84 flew in from Los Angeles to attend the event and watch his sister, a current student at the Harvard Medical School, perform. His mother, who had been part of the first cohort of Native Americans to study at Harvard again in the early 1970s, also flew in from San Francisco to witness Harvard begin to become the “place it was meant...