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Your article was a welcome report on the progress of women's opportunities. Progress always comes with costs. With the minority choosing to abandon the workforce for their infants, it's fair to say public and private sector policies need also to embrace this change. Otherwise the real cost will be borne by the next generation. Frank Howard, LONDON...
Graduate School of Design student Mais S. Al Azab said that she appreciated having an Arab voice represented at Harvard, and she called Khalaf’s speech “fair to the heritage of the Arab cultures...
...going to take it. "I know I'm Puerto Rican," said a woman on the plane over from New York, "but I love the Pacman." The rowdy rivalry between the two island peoples (appropriately abbreviated P.R. vs. R.P., Puerto Rico vs. the Republic of the Philippines) did its fair share to rev up excitement in a town that is used to ethnic marketing (note the billboards for visiting superstars from South Korea, north Africa and Israel, alongside those of Bette Midler and Carrot Top). On fight night, national flags were worn as athletic costumes, though the big money men were...
...fair to describe the blues as an African-American musical genre? That's fair. But being Afro-American doesn't mean the blues isn't Anglo-American, too. People become confused and think being Afro-American means you exclude Anglo-Americans. Afro-American is a culture that includes people of all kinds of skin colors. It is a cultural disposition. So, yes, the blues is Afro-American music. But all races play...
...foreigners - and, indeed, a fair number of Chinese - believe that the obsession (and that's the right word) with education in China is overdone. The system stresses rote memorization. It drives kids crazy - aren't 7-year-olds supposed to have fun on Saturday afternoons? - and doesn't necessarily prepare them, economically speaking, for the job market or, emotionally speaking, for adulthood. Add to that the fact that the system, while incredibly competitive, has become corrupt...