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...Opposition to Gayoom's rule reached a peak in late 2003, when news leaked of government violence against political prisoners led to mass protests on the streets of the Maldives' capital, Male. "We had been telling the population that they deserved better," says Ahmed Moosa, a prominent opposition figure who said he fled to London after receiving death threats from elements within Gayoom's government. "Now we were able to expose the regime for the crimes it had committed." International pressure and defections from his own cadres slowly forced Gayoom to change tack and speak of democratic reform. Ibrahim Hussein...
...complicated storyline that is often difficult to follow, the interpretive ambiguity it causes is not only a source of confusion, but also one of enjoyment.“Mnemonic” weaves together several related storylines in which all characters are desperately searching for something, using female players for male characters to emphasize the irrelevance of gender for human experience. In the first, a man called Virgil—wonderfully played by Madeleine A. Bennett ’11—tries to locate her lost lover. In the second, Virgil’s lost lover, Alice (Catrin M. Lloyd...
...revolutions invariably involve some people giving up on what they strongly believe, which usually involves getting badly hurt. The American Revolution hurt loyalists; the Industrial Revolution hurt artisans; the suffrage movement hurt those with a strong attachment to male hegemony. In each case, the social decision selected progress of the whole at the expense of a dislocation of the part. This, after all, is what a claim to progress implies: in some cases, obstacles to change must be steamrolled...
...exclusivity of the male franchise was once an assumption of American life. The scions of the suffrage movement, however, didn’t try to swindle their way out of an uphill battle by offering society a sweetened pill. There was no way they could avoid recognizing that those committed to the male-only vote would be hurt by their movement. Instead, they decided to attack the moral and intellectual position of the anti-suffrage movement—and eventually...
...featured prominently,” said Susan B. Marine, director of the Women’s Center. “Women don’t get as much exposure in popular music, and it’s important not to buy into the idea that all bands are male.” Marine said the pub has been a great partner in promoting female performers, noting that it co-sponsored two similar events last year and hopes to host similar concerts each semester. “It is a great way to work together for a goal everybody supports...