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...their election to undermine the right to choose. Using tactics that, though technically legal, are underhanded at best, the president and his pals in Congress are slowly succeeding at doing what they couldn’t through open debate: limit women’s access to reproductive healthcare and lay the groundwork for overturning Roe v. Wade...
...handpicked hundred were continuing to increase benefits for women, despite the flagging economy. So why, in the past year, has Harvard laid off more than 200 clerical workers, an arm of the university’s workforce largely composed of women, and drawn up plans to lay off 180 more? These layoffs expose the Working Mother award as so much smoke and mirrors, grist for a propaganda mill determined to distract the Harvard community while working mothers in our midst are fighting just to keep their jobs. Feminists and anyone concerned about the real status of working mothers at this...
...SPRATLY ISLANDS Brunei, China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam all lay claim to some or all of these reefs and islets. In 1988, the dispute sparked a naval battle between China and Vietnam, in which more than 70 sailors died. In subtler declarations of ownership, Vietnam last week launched a holiday cruise to the barren archipelago, and Taiwan in late March marked its territory by erecting a bird-watching shack on one of the islands. At least there's a sensible money-grubbing reason for some of this squabbling: the Spratlys sit athwart vital shipping lanes, fishing grounds...
...Harvard Law School (HLS) plaque as the only decoration on the paneled back wall. The stage was set up in front of what usually serves as the judges’ seats of power. Although at first seemingly barren, it was a perfectly appropriate atmosphere for the confusion that lay in store. The occasional guitar music was soothing, although incongruous...
...article in the Atlantic, Lewis identified the struggle between Islam and the West as a "clash of civilizations," long before the term was fashionable. The roots of Muslim rage, he argued, lay less in any evils of the West than in a "feeling of humiliation" in the Islamic world, deriving from the fact that Muslims' proud civilization had been "overtaken, overborne and overwhelmed by those whom they regarded as their inferiors." Once the the rage and failure of the Islamic world slipped out of their natural confines, as they did on Sept. 11, 2001, neoconservatives were able to argue that...