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When it was time to raise her three children, my mother—a Harvard graduate, an attorney, and a self-proclaimed feminist—decided to quit working to commit herself full-time to motherhood. A few years later, she returned to work part-time, allowing her to keep her foot in the door as a partner in a law firm, lobby for environmental causes, and volunteer at my siblings’ elementary school. Far from abandoning personal happiness for childrearing, she, like many women, found motherhood fulfilling—a choice that too many feminists view...
Those who decide to commit themselves full-time to mothering, will not have to worry about whether their nannies are smacking the kids while they’re at the office; instead they will constantly be reminded that they are wasting their Harvard degrees. Their working friends from college will assume they lead boring lives. They’ll be brushed off and seldom thanked for their hard work raising their children...
...said that failing to stop the genocide in Rwanda was the biggest regret of your tenure. If you could do it again, would you commit U.S. troops to stop what happened there? And given what we know about the genocide in Darfur, should the U.S. send troops to stop the killing there...
...busy one in Durham, and not just because of the District Attorney election. A report to Duke University President Richard Brodhead that is expected to be damning about the lacrosse team's general behavior is due Monday. And that same day is the deadline for accepted applicants to commit to Duke...
With an extra $70,000 on its hands after the outsourcing of campus-wide events to the College Events Board, the UC can afford to guarantee and augment its contributions to HoCos. We hope that a constitutional amendment will commit the UC to allocating a certain percentage of the UC’s budget to HoCos each semester. The UC should take House size into account when making its awards to the various HoCos, though the distribution should not be exactly proportional to population; merely it must take into consideration that Quincy with its over 460 students needs to spend...