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...introduced to the idea of standard sex roles and gender biases. It was more important for me growing up to be able to lift that 50-pound bag of rock salt for my grandmother than if I was pretty or had nice-looking nails. One of the things I hope to show through my books is that there's no black and white when it comes to men and women. One woman told me, "I didn't know that women could be dangerous, or that women could protect themselves." When I was growing up, since there weren...
...hope is that further rate cuts will stabilize volatile financial markets and accelerate the slowing economy. But as the rate heads toward zero, the Fed is rapidly running out of room for reductions. Not only that, economists and analysts are questioning whether rate cuts produce any bang for the buck under the current extraordinary circumstances...
...that the women might have gotten from a real-life therapy group. Stark will also give professional advice, including seven tips for recovery - including exercises that will help women focus on their future and on themselves, rather than on trying to find an explanation for their husbands' behavior. The hope is that participants will receive enough validation and the right skills to overcome their anguish and move...
...National Party by as much as 18 points during the campaign, it looks ripe for the kind of electoral execution to which all long-term governments are vulnerable - the kind where voters decide they're sick of the sight of you. Days out from polling, Clark's best hope rests in the vagaries of the country's Mixed Member Proportional voting system, which make it unlikely that either major party will form a government on its own. Wooing minor-party support when the pressure's on has been a Clark knack. On election night, however, if the numbers fall...
...trouble with this story, like all senseless tragedies, is that it has no arc. We cannot realistically hope for some resulting parable of triumph over adversity. We can root for them. We can pray for them. But only Julia and Jennifer Hudson will know if redemption finally comes...