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...fighting against. Since coming to Harvard, Nowski has merged a love of public speaking with a commitment to women’s empowerment in nearly everything she does. She recently spent a summer in Australia, talking with schools about how to create public speaking programs for girls. A highlight of the trip involved a speech she gave to girls about the history of feminism, which ended in a standing ovation and one girl coming up to her and saying, “I never thought feminism was cool, but I do now.” In these travels and others...
...Chaps); skateboarder Tony Hawk; and Cuban-American model and actress Daisy Fuentes. Next up in early 2007: a blockbuster partnership with designer Vera Wang and an exclusive housewares partnership with the Food Network. Says Kohl's president, Mansell: "We're creating an umbrella of 'only at Kohl's' to highlight our differentiation. It's what our core female customer wants." For the moment, private labels and exclusive national brands account for about a third of Kohl's revenues...
...Despite its gloomy picture of the current state of affairs, the report does highlight the heroic efforts of many Arab women and their male supporters to remedy the situation, and the gains they have made. In particular, it credits Arab novelists and filmmakers for publicizing women's suffering and offering models of hope. But in its conclusion, "Towards the Rise" recognizes the huge obstacles that remain. Unwilling to leave reform to government or Islamic leaders, the report calls for a "widespread and effective movement of struggle in Arab civil society" - a social revolution, really - to advance women's rights...
...production “American Grace.” Joanna R. Binney ’08, Lauren E. Chin ’08, Madelyn M. Ho ’08, and Emily B. Stoeckel ’07 executed the whimsical choreography by David Parsons cleanly and gracefully. The highlight was a segment during which all four dancers are spread on the floor as if sleeping, switching positions in synch to the accelerating music. Both the dancers’ abilities and the preparation for the performance were apparent. The first half of the showcase ended with Crimson Dance Team?...
...problem with the UC as it is currently structured is that it tries to bring together three dozen elected politicians to work as both bureaucrats and administrators. Brian and his running mate Morgan C. Wimberly ’08 are running a campaign simply to highlight the inefficiencies in this hopelessly flawed system during the one time of the year that the school is focused on the various problems with and solutions for our student government—election season...