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Chinese and Filipina women come to the U.S. territory of Saipan to pursue the American dream. They sew clothes labeled "Made in the USA." But they work in sweatshops for measly pay and are forbidden to strike or get pregnant, says Tia Lessin's strident but revelatory documentary about wage slavery, American-style...
...grades. Each professor could write a couple paragraphs about each student, succinctly identifying the student’s academic strengths and weaknesses, in addition to explaining the material the student learned in the course. Comparison of the student to the rest of the students in the class would be forbidden. The upside to this system is that the evaluations would describe the student’s performance more precisely than grades, and all of this could be done in a non-competitive manner. The downside is that it would take too much effort, and far too much time...
...took over in 1992, life began to change. Women still could attend university, especially to study in the medical and educational fields, but many started wearing head scarves to appease the mullahs. When the Taliban came to power in 1996, its fanatical clerics erased all remaining rights: women are forbidden to leave the house without a male chaperone, windows are painted so that females inside can?t tempt passersby and women are stoned to death for adultery. The future of women depends on who ends up running the country. The Northern Alliance, the loose coalition of former mujahedin fighting...
...title siblings of Three Sisters deal with issues “such as adultery, forbidden love and sexual tensions,” said Ruiz. Despite relevant subject matter, however, Russian literature carries a reputation for being long and boring. Fortenberry and her team, therefore, are making an effort to increase the play’s accessibility. They have taken Three Sisters out of its turn-of-the-century setting and situated it in the present day. Fortenberry has also selected a clear American translation by Paul Schmidt, circumventing the stilted language in some British versions. And young actresses have been...
...there be no doubt: Fighting is absolutely forbidden when the conditions mentioned above do not exist. And if at any point, the tyrant stops his oppressive ways or the cause of self-defense is removed, then fighting must stop immediately...