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...experience national belonging differently from men. The fact that women had limited access to the vote until suffrage was granted in 1920, that until quite recently women could not have their own credit lines without the approval of their husbands or fathers, the fact that women still earn substantially less than men on average. And of course race and class influence one’s access to the rights and privileges of citizenship in concrete ways as well, usually in conjunction with notions of sex difference. If we mean “sex” as sexual orientation and/or erotic...
Upon emerging from an “amazing” backrub courtesy of the Stressbusters, Victor M. Flores ’13 said that his shoulders felt less tense—a boon, he added, since he had a long night of midterm preparation ahead...
...Humane Society, raising concerns. Jennifer Fearing, California senior state director and chief economist for the U.S. Humane Society, supports the measure's aims but worries about whether it can get passed. Says Fearing: "I would be shocked if this legislature is prepared to enact any tax this year, much less one levied on pet owners who are struggling to care for their animals, when many of them are dropping them off at shelters." (See TIME's photo-essay "Puppies Behind Bars...
...delegation had an average age of 66; it included Charlie Rangel, fresh from his "admonishment" by the House Ethics Committee. In the absence of Ted Kennedy, it had no senior legislative health care expert from the Senate - unless you count Senate Finance Committee chair Max Baucus, of whom the less said, the better. (Senator Ron Wyden, who has done the most creative thinking about health care policy of any Senate Democrat, was added to his party's roster at the last moment and was allowed to speak only briefly, toward the end of the day. He used no anecdotes...
Ultimately, Pelosi may have to change the votes of a handful of conservative Democrats who voted against the original House bill in November. She'll argue that the newer version is smaller and less expensive. It also does not include a government-run public option for providing coverage to the uninsured - a provision of the original House measure that had been anathema to those who saw it as the leading edge of what they feared would be a government takeover of health care...