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...society. The idea of equal social and professional rights for women, "once the doctrine of well-educated middle-class women," had "taken hold among working-class women, farm wives, blacks, Puerto Ricans, white 'ethnics.'" The drama of the sexes remained, TIME cautioned--"the Old Adam and the New Eve." But "enough U.S. women have so deliberately taken possession of their lives that the event is spiritually equivalent to the discovery of a new continent...
...LANKA Season's Greetings Hailing the November election win of Ranil Wickremesinghe's United National Front as a "collective mandate for peace and ethnic harmony," the Tamil Tiger rebels announced a one-month unilateral cease-fire beginning on Christmas Eve. Wickremesinghe, who has said that he will negotiate with the rebels, responded to the olive branch by pledging that the government will comply "as a goodwill gesture to facilitate peace." Sri Lanka's previous government pursued an aggressive military strategy favored by President Chandrika Kumaratunga, Wickremesinghe's longtime archrival...
...Mammoth discounter Wal-Mart looks to be the big winner so far in a dismal Christmas season for retailers, happily reporting Wednesday that its holiday sales for the period between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve came in above company expectations of a 4-6 percent year-over-year increase. Rival Kmart, meanwhile, said its sales from Nov. 22 to Dec. 23 came in at the low end of expectations, but picked up considerably in the last few shopping days before Christmas, with winter apparel - thanks to some cold days - finally getting off the ground. And the ultimate in lazy...
...major objective of the exercise - from leaflets dropped all over Afghanistan offering a $25 million reward for his capture and Pentagon updates over his likely whereabouts to the White House releasing last week's tape to convince the Arab world of his guilt on what many anticipated was the eve of his demise at Tora Bora...
...world, the tape's effect was muted. It may help those- such as President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and King Abdullah II of Jordan- who would like to argue that the war in Afghanistan is being waged against terrorists, not against Islam. But the tape was released on the eve of Eid ul-Fitr, a major holiday marking the end of Ramadan, when Arabs tend to family festivities rather than the news. Besides, the hot political issue in the past few weeks has been not the war in Afghanistan but the renewed violence between Israel and the Palestinians...