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...step, they say, is changing just one sentence in the University’s non-discrimination policy to include protection for “gender identity and expression.” Most advocates know that Harvard’s disparate parts do their best for transgendered students. But they insist that until the official policy changes, the culture at Harvard will remain hostile to transgendered students, staff, and faculty.AN ILLUSTRIOUS PASTAlex S. Myers ’00, a biological female living as man, came out at Harvard as the first openly transgendered undergraduate in 1997 and subsequently founded the Transgender...
...While Washington can't roll back India's nuclear weapons program, senior State Department officials insist that the safeguards they've negotiated would ensure that no American aid ends up in it. What's more, they argue, whereas the U.S. has had no influence at all over any of India's nuclear activities for the past three decades, now more than half of its program would come under international controls. The deal, Burns tells TIME, also establishes "an important strategic friendship with India" that will benefit the U.S "for the next 50 years." In a Wheeling, W.Va., speech Wednesday, Bush...
...there protection in design capability, which has long been an Italian strength. Chairs are easily copied. Manzano's entrepreneurs complain that Chinese manufacturers simply steal what they find in catalogs and on websites. The Italians insist they still have an edge in quality--especially with chairs made out of fine wood or upholstered in top-quality leather-- and in their ability to tailor production to customers like the hotel industry. But even there the Chinese are muscling...
...President should be on a plane to Europe and to the region. He should insist that the major powers and Iraq's neighbors join us in putting maximum pressure on the Iraqis to compromise. He should summon the Iraqi leadership together - and not let them leave until they reach agreement on a unity government...
...Perhaps above all, those who believe in the ineluctable march of globalization insist that technology?the Internet, ever-bigger container ships, multi-nation sourcing of goods that depends on sophisticated logistic software?will continue to bring the world closer together. And so it will, probably. But remember: that rudder post in Hong Kong was on the stern of a ship more than 120 m long, or six times the size of the little craft that Columbus sailed across the Atlantic a few decades later...