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Sisterhood is Global is a gold mine of statistical and factual information. It will be an invaluable reference book for anyone interested in the social status of women worldwide. Each essay is accompanied by detail after detail on the role of women in all spheres of society--female employment, wage differentials, participation in government, equal rights legislation. More than one-third of all families in the world, we learn, are now headed by women, and the statistics on the number of these families with incomes below national poverty lines lead credence to recent observations of a "feminization of poverty...
...attack on government officials) strikes at the very center of the constitutionally protected area of free expression." The court believed that without such protection, the press would feel a "chilling effect." Said Justice Brennan: "A rule compelling the critic of official conduct to guarantee the truth of all his factual assertions--and to do so on pain of libel judgments virtually unlimited in amount--leads to a comparable 'self-censorship...
...Harvard is proposing something contrary to what their own Design School set as factual parameters," said Harvard Square preservationist Gladys Gifford, Gifford recalled a 1984 Graduate School of Design study--whose purpose was to suggest strategies for limiting development in Harvard Square--which targeted the south side of Mt. Auburn St. as dangerously susceptible to development...
Some legal experts not connected with the case thought that Judge Sofaer's complex definition of malice represented a departure from precedent. "It is contrary to established law to equate exaggeration with substantial factual falsity," observed Richard Winfield, a publishing specialist in the Manhattan firm of Rogers & Wells. Said Henry Kaufman, general counsel for the Libel Defense Resource Center, a New York-based media group: "It's a Rube Goldberg kind of charge. I'm concerned, in the context of this case, that jurors will turn the concept of material exaggeration or distortion around to secondguess editorial judgment...
...will not go on to enumerate the many misspellings, grammatical mistakes, misrepresentations, and additional factual errors strewn throughout Mr. Duke's review, as I do not wish to be as wordy as he. But his writings and scholarship do make one wonder about the state of the liberal arts education at Harvard. Perhaps English is not Mr. Duke's first language. That would explain shot. Benjamin Hart Author of Poisoned...