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...sprinkles in some women’s studies terminology: “And so many people are so afraid of women who border cross between beauty and brains, between feeling confident in the way they look and feeling confident in their knowledge. And that means people want us to fail! And they want us to deny ourselves the right to be beautiful and smart and talented, and confident in these elements of ourselves...
...This is nonsense on stilts. You can make any argument you like about whether France's policy on Iraq makes sense, but it is hard to claim that France has been either inconsistent or motivated by a desire to see the U.S. fail. In a long interview with TIME in February, President Jacques Chirac laid out his policy with admirable clarity. France, he said, had no difference with the U.S. "over the goal of eliminating Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction." The point of distinction was simply that Chirac thought that war - which he believed would outrage Arab...
...Gimme Shelter High-ranking Taiwanese civil servants often get free housing from the government. And when they retire, they frequently fail to move out. A ruling party legislator estimates that civil servants unlawfully occupy some $590 million-worth of government-owned real estate...
...Roman than Greek. They, for their own part, continue to labour under the misapprehension that they hold a special place in the civilized world—why, we Romans are still regarded as barbarians by these people; a people who cling to their glorious past, and, in so doing, fail to recognise this, the late evening of their prominence...
...response to the article ‘Social Norms Programs Fail,” in which Henry Wechsler again attacks social norms interventions based on the findings of his recently published study, I would like to echo the concerns of many other researchers and cast doubt on the study’s accuracy (Op-ed, Sept. 12). The study’s methods used to identify participating social norms colleges are flawed, therefore rendering all the data in the study suspect. Many of the participating schools reported incorporating positive norm messages into student programs but this is qualitatively different than...