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...Agony of Kashmir Readers were eager to let us know that while official reaction to the earthquake was slow and in some ways inadequate, average citizens were quick to participate in the aid and recovery efforts that united...
...have moved the sign high enough so that potential crooks can’t read it. Effective, but more can be done. If the street name was changed to “Stonebrook Lane,” the only people who will want to steal it are senior citizens eager to decorate their backyard ponds...
After the Sept. 11 attacks, the CIA was eager to whisk captured terrorists off to secret locations around the world where its operatives could interrogate them out of the reach of the U.S. legal system and human-rights organizations. But four years later, with about three dozen of al-Qaeda's most hard-core agents in CIA custody, America's new spy chief seems less enthusiastic about the leeway his operatives have had. At a secret briefing for U.S. Senators on Oct. 26, a senior U.S. intelligence official tells TIME, Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte was pointedly neutral...
...Feminism and the Autonomy of Women.” Mansfield’s argument that women might now feel more liberated by staying in the home and raising children is controversial enough. But those expecting it to be condemned at the hands of feminists, eager to see women stay in the workplace, would have been surprised. Instead, the bulk of criticism came from BGLTSA types, outraged at Mansfield’s heteronormativity...
...last year, compared with teenagers, who spent $20 billion, according to the NPD Group Inc., a market-research firm. The over-50 cohort has $750 billion in spending power and controls 50% of all discretionary income. Fashion executives, struggling with a stagnant apparel market in recent years, have been eager to find a new niche. "All you have to do is look at the numbers of population and spending power of the boomers," says Wendy Liebmann, president of WSL Strategic Retail. "You just have to say to yourself, Oh, my heavens, how can we not address this audience...