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...player on the women's tour, Navratilova plans to play a full doubles schedule this year--and improve on her showing at last year's Grand Slams, in which she reached the doubles semifinals of Wimbledon and the U.S. Open. She says she may even play singles "on the grass"--at Wimbledon, which she has won a record nine times--"if the body's feeling good and the game...
...That frugal ingenuity is shared by many rural women, says Wendy Hucker, of the Pioneer Women's Hut museum at Tumbarumba, New South Wales: "People around here still use vinegar and newspaper to clean the windows, kerosene for getting grease marks off clothes, bar soap and cold water for grass stains." The "culture of capability," as Thomson calls it, was born of hardship. People had very little, so they had to be handy. Tips were exchanged with neighbors and passed from parents to children. "People no longer do that," Hucker says. "They don't know their neighbors, and they move...
...religious minorities are routinely repressed. Prominent activists, such as Akbar Ganji and Roya Toloui, are routinely attacked for dissident opinions. Yet these same human rights activists oppose foreign interference and invasion (including the U.S.’s ongoing economic sanctions), because outside pressure is counterproductive and undermines positive, grass-roots change. Foreign interference destroys civilian lives, institutions, and infrastructure, and provides a pretext for heightened repression. Solidarity with Iranian dissidents must be sophisticated enough to avoid manipulation by the neo-conservative agenda. Make no mistake, the first victims of any U.S. aggression against Iran—completely left...
...Sanders, an Independent. Sanders decided to run for the U.S. Senate shortly after the departure of the Senate’s only Independent, Jim Jeffords, in April 2005. Harvard College Democrats President Eric P. Lesser ’07 encouraged students to follow Welch’s call for grass-roots mobilization. “There are a couple of dozen races in the House worth watching, and this is one,” he said. “There is no definite person to fill the seat, and the stakes are high.” The campaign holds national...
Photographs of bright-eyed students of all races sitting together are as much a staple of Harvard admissions brochures as the red bricks and green grass of the Yard. But a snapshot of a typical meal in a dining hall or a Saturday night party can make social life at Harvard seem far more monochrome...