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...stigma” and get active. “Recreation should be part of every woman’s life,” said Delany-Smith. Panelist Liz O’Leary, head coach of the women’s heavyweight crew team, encouraged women to join teams, saying lessons learned from playing a sport transcend many aspects of a woman’s life. “You learn how networking and camaraderie help you beyond your sport,” she said. “I learned as much, if not more, through basketball as through academic programs...
Afghanistan became President Obama's war on Tuesday, when he ordered two more U.S. combat brigades into the fight. He will send 17,000 combat troops to join the 36,000-strong U.S. force already in the theater. The fact that the units now ordered to Afghanistan had originally been slated for Iraq underscores the new Administration's shift in priorities...
...California faces challenges unlike any other time in its history - a weak and faltering economy, massive job losses and an exploding state budget deficit. California is better than this, and I refuse to stand by and watch it fail. Now is the time for people across the state to join a cause for change, excellence and a new California." (See the 25 most influential global executives...
...stronger position than ever in the court of Palestinian public opinion. Despite the violence by Hamas gunmen against Fatah activists in Gaza since the Israeli offensive, many in Fatah view their movement's only hope of re-establishing a leading role in Palestinian politics as being to join a unity government with Hamas - and begin to directly challenge the Israeli occupation in the West Bank. The fact that such a sentiment coincides with Israel's electing a more hawkish government suggests that the Middle East could be in for a long, hot summer...
...when you grow up?" At a multifaith school run by the Chaldean church in Basra, a class of 4-year-olds is addressing that universal question. Several kids want to be doctors; there's a would-be teacher too. Allawi plans to be a businessman. Moqtada intends to join the army "so I can give protection." If the optimists are right, his services won't be required to keep the peace in his city...