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Chad and Howard (Matt Malloy) are two thirtyish corporate types on a six-week assignment in a new city. Howard has been dumped by the fiance he adored. Chad, who tells Howard he too has been abandoned, proposes an elaborate scheme of gender revenge. They will choose a vulnerable woman, begin dating demurely, get her to fall in love. And then drop her. "Let's do it," Chad says. "Let's hurt somebody...
...three-pronged initiative," consisting of a research program led by Baroness Shirley Williams stemming from this year's Women's Leadership Initiative conference; a Women and Public Policy program in which Mansbridge will work with current U.S. ambassador to Austria Swanee Hunt and KSG professors to highlight gender perspectives on public policy; and a Council on World Women Leaders headed by Laura Liswood...
Many students at the KSG said they have hoped for a forum to address issues of gender, race and sexual orientation. A center on women would "help foster that type of environment," said Jenny Korn, a member of the Kennedy School student Government...
Like virtually all Leigh's characters, Annie and Hannah are trapped in the hopelessness of modern life. Or should we make that modern English life? Educated to the point of glibness, but not to the point of wisdom, they know just enough to recognize the constraints of class, gender and material longing, but not enough to break through them, to achieve the freedom of mind and spirit that modernity keeps promising but never quite delivers. This leaves them at once ranting and wistful, delivering those arias of discontent--often funny, sometimes touching, always brutally frank--that are the hallmark...
...Jewel have managed to break through the homogenized slop that record companies are distributing does not mean that music or women have been liberated. As is the case with all true artists, it is their writing, singing and passion that do the most to distinguish them, not their gender. CRAIG R. BAYER North Bergen...