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...very distinctions that make men men and women women. To be sure, Beauvoir unequivocally rejected the notion of equality in difference, which, in her mind, spelled inferiority. Yet, as per her claims, since the essence traditionally assigned to women was unacceptable and no new essence loomed on the horizon, women’s only chance at liberation lay in emulating men. Beauvoir’s woman, it seemed, was really just a man in drag—or, worse yet, a eunuch...
...large measure because of the global financial crisis and drop in energy prices. While the company said it expects higher sales in 2010, Eldrup looks beyond the quarterly reports. "This is the way the energy business is," he says. "We are working on a long-term horizon...
With the bases loaded and only one out, it looked like trouble was on the horizon for the Crimson...
...Bush's advisers during this phase of their first-term cycle. They are taking nothing for granted and are constantly evaluating how to use the Democratic National Committee and other allies to belittle and diminish every potential rival. At the same time, they don't see anyone on the horizon who particularly worries them, finding both humor and solace in the apparent weaknesses of their rivals. They know, too, that it has been tough to beat an incumbent of late: three out of the previous four Presidents were re-elected after being in dire political shape at moments during their...
...Moreover, the iPad is merely the tangible component of a much larger device, an entire Internet ecosystem that extends out to the horizon in every direction. Other companies simply cannot match Apple's skill in constructing media pipelines for its products. The iPad is launching into the teeth of a storm of competition: there's a tablet shipping this month called (unfortunately) the JooJoo that is physically the iPad's rival, and Sony, Dell, Acer, Asus, Lenovo and (undaunted) Microsoft are all said to have next-gen tablets in the works, to say nothing of the inevitable swarm of Chinese...