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...aide of another candidate, Mohsen Rezai, told TIME that Rezai will consider a woman as "Hillary Clinton's Iranian counterpart." "The fact that the candidates are talking about women in their Cabinets is a step forward," says Shadi Sadr, lawyer and women's rights activist. "It shows that our grass-roots efforts have yielded results...
...doctors to talk about a fetus' development and its ability to feel pain. Opponents of "informed consent" laws that talk about fetal pain warn that doing so just causes the woman pain, and call it emotional blackmail. But there is no denying that the battleground has shifted. (Read "The Grass-Roots Abortion...
...resident, said he too felt that the discussion of parks had been “way out of sequence,” but that residents had managed to use the meeting to shift the focus of the BRA’s planning “to human beings from grass and asphalt.” Other neighborhood residents voiced concerns about the density and height of the envisioned commercial development in the area—some suggested that the entire area south of Western Ave. should be made residential—and others questioned whether the neighborhood had a need...
...France, the country that birthed the auteur theory, the real stars are the directors. Filmmakers who are not widely known in the States - Austria's Michael Haneke (The White Ribbon), Italy's Marco Bellocchio (Vincere), South Korea's Park Chan-wook (Thirst) and native son Alain Resnais (Wild Grass) - are considered masters here, and the prospect of a masterpiece from any one of them excites the cinemarati...
...culinary ladder. There are lesser versions, but the most highly esteemed is made from an indigenous breed of pig called the ibérico. During the last months of their lives, the pigs are allowed to roam freely over a landscape known as the dehesa, feasting on nothing but grass and acorns. The resulting hams, which are dry cured for an average of two years, boast a rich, full-flavored meat that is simultaneously sweet and salty, nutty and grassy. In Jabugo and nearby Aracena, two towns renowned for producing some of the best ham in Spain, a good...