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Florence Graves is one of the 10 women who have been named Radcliffe Public Policy Fellows for 1995-96. The group will focus on economic issues facing women, including gender equity in the workplace and the impact of poverty.
Graves' book examines "the balance of power in Washington, D.C. and how power is often sexualized," said Angela Rushing Place, a staff assistant at the Radcliffe Public Policy Institute.
The law, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), requires museums to identify and possibly return all human remains and many types of burial artifacts to the Native American tribes with which they originated.
There was a time when suicides were not permitted ceremonious burial--they were indeed dumped in shallow graves at crossroads, their names pronounced taboo. Surely this custom evolved in part out of a desire to dissuade potential suicides from believing they would be celebrated in death. Today, of course, we...
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Madeleine Albright showed classified spy-satellite photos to the Security Council that she said made a "compelling case that there were wide-scale atrocities committed in the area against defenseless civilians." The photos showed large patches of freshly dug earth near Srebrenica--believed to...