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...tribute to Ogden Nash's verse Requires a little life portrait of the man - what Time editors call bio-perse. Nash was the maternal grandson of a noted Louisville, Ky., feminist Who educated his own daughters and had them apply to Harvard using only their first initials on the applications and had the pleasure of seeing them accepted, then the pain of seeing them rejected for their sex, because at the time Harvard admitted no female, even if she was the world's leading Egyptian authority or Saudi scholar or Yemenist. Frederic Ogden Nash was born on August...
...successful author--and she is a very successful author--Janet Evanovich, 59, has many unfashionable tastes. She loved her years as a stay-at-home mom, in an era when feminist, have-it-all ideals reigned. She adores romance novels, though many women read them only with the curtains drawn. She is addicted to junk food, never mind that tofu is de rigeur...
Women, who account for 52 percent of this country’s population, have not achieved the true political equality dreamt by our feminist pioneers. Of more than 12,000 members of Congress since our nation’s founding, only about 2 percent, or 215, have been women. All of America’s 43 presidents and 46 vice presidents have been men. The discrepancy of power between men and women only increases when comparing the U.S. to many other parts of the world. According to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the U.S. ranks 55th globally in terms of women?...
...abortion rights demonstration included members of several local women’s and feminist groups, including clinic escorts from a local Planned Parenthood clinic who protect people entering clinics from demonstrators. Many of the participants were passersby who came upon the demonstration and joined...
Most passersby declined to take anti-abortion brochures or to stop to look at their posters of aborted fetuses. Passing cars honked horns and their drivers shouted statements of support for the feminist groups...