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...result of inundation in a culture accepting of the objectification of women; indeed, a culture where abstinence has no voice. A woman whose self-perception was entirely free from the curse of objectification would not stand to be spoken to in such a way. She would hardly dismiss such treatment as a manifestation of actual love...
While Tulane dismisses Marrogi's suspicions as far-fetched, documents examined by TIME as well as interviews with witnesses who have testified to the IRS illustrate financial machinations that appear to have Gerber at their center and, at the very least, paint a portrait of a prestigious university shoddily run. Indeed, the school's officials and its legal counsel openly contradict one another. The vice chancellor for finance, Ray Newman, contends that doctors are due compensation for work at Charity Hospital (which produces revenues for the university of $20 million to $30 million in payments), even as general counsel John...
...Gonzales had tried to dismiss the controversy as an "overblown personnel matter," but his attitude appeared to irritate the Judiciary Committee's leading Republican, Sen. Arlen Specter. "One day there will be a new attorney general," Specter said at this week's public hearing in the Senate, "maybe sooner rather than later...
...those presidential candidates is Ramos-Horta, who says it's unfair to dismiss his country as a failed state so soon. "There is no civil war or bombs bursting on the streets," he says. "These are just growing pains of a young country." His main rival, Fernando de Araujo, leader of the democratic party and, like Gusmao , a resistance hero, disagrees. "We are a new country, but we are not a new society," he says. "Our people can see with their own eyes what has happened. It has been five years and what is there to show for it? Almost...
...before the Congressional hearings, Michael Battle, the Justice Department official who had made the telephone calls to dismiss six of the eight prosecutors, announced he was leaving his job. The Department described the sudden departure as long planned, having nothing to do with the controversial terminations he had been required to carry out. But Democrats immediately questioned that version of events. Said Linda Sanchez, a California Democrat: "The wheels are coming off the Bush Administration's increasingly hollow defense of its decision...