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...Hell no. They threw me out. Here I am, a southern country girl, so I was easy to write off as a stupid kid. I still had my accent - I have it when I go home, but I hadn't learned how to disguise it. I raised the issue of class differences between women and racial differences. At this point this was really quite an important band of women in America, but not necessarily representative of all women's concerns. Then, of course, I raised the issue of gay women. That was all it took. [Betty Friedan...
Then there's travel. "If you don't travel in fashion, you are dead," says Sälzer, who has just returned from Madrid, where he had no specific agenda other than that he hadn't been there in a year. Traveling means checking out restaurants, new hotels, the stores, "then three months on, if someone says, 'We should open on this street,' I know exactly where it is and what the area is like. While I travel, I don't decide anything; I'm just being open. But when a decision is needed, I'm ready. I'm a very...
...extension of tours of duty I remember clearly the day that we all learned that everybody's tours would be 15 months. Everyone kind of just accepted it. It didn't really surprise or shock anyone, and we hadn't yet deployed so it wasn't like we thought we were coming home and then found out it would be later. I actually had one soldier who, in his earlier tour, was pulled out of Iraq to Kuwait and they were on the plane to go home, and they had to turn back around to Baghdad...
...both housed in ugly, shed-like structures. Maggie Livingstone of Suffolk, who last saw the stones more than 40 years ago when she was a youngster, was en route to Somerset with a friend when she decided to stop and visit them again. She was stunned that the facilities hadn't really changed in all those years. "It's quite extraordinary that they haven't taken care...
Apparently, resounding electoral defeat has left France's ruling conservatives a little hard of hearing. Because scarcely minutes after the opposition Socialists registered dramatic advances in the final round of country-wide municipal polling on Sunday evening, members of the French government claimed they hadn't heard the faintest note of voter disgruntlement. Despite a drubbing in towns and cities across France, officials in President Nicolas Sarkozy's cabinet pledged they'd continue their reformist drive with even more energy than before...