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...special report is also a collaboration with Maria Shriver, who has overseen a wide-ranging study called The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything along with the Center for American Progress, and who will also be revealing some exclusive findings from our poll on Meet the Press on Oct. 18. Maria, the First Lady of California and an irresistible force in her own right, also oversees California's annual Women's Conference, one of the nation's premier forums for women to come together to discuss vital issues. Held on Oct. 26-27, this year's conference will...
...attracted more venture capital than the rest of the nation combined. Somehow its supposedly hostile business climate has nurtured Google, Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Facebook, Twitter, Disney, Cisco, Intel, eBay, YouTube, MySpace, the Gap and countless other companies that drive the way we live. (See pictures of California First Lady Maria Shriver...
Many contemporary plays can be described, in the words of Maria of “Twelfth Night,” as “improbable fiction.” But despite Shakespeare’s often fantastical flourishes, his works have always captured certain human truths. Thanks to this, “The Seven Deadly Sins of Shakespeare,” which ran this weekend at the Adams House Pool Theatre, manages to strike the chords of human folly’s universality using excerpts from the Bard’s plays, allowing the production to resonate, despite its occasional...
...potential for such a lack of uniformity across the country has only recently become apparent. Just last week, during the markup of the bill, at least two amendments were tacked on to the legislation giving states further latitude. Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington drafted an amendment that would allow states the option of pooling residents earning 133% to 200% of the federal poverty level into a group outside the exchange. States would get money from federal subsidies that are available to these low-income earners - who wouldn't be poor enough to qualify for Medicaid even under the proposed expanded...
Certain girls' names, Jasso points out, survive the Spanish-English crossing better than boys' names, since the a ending (Victoria, Cordelia, Diana, Maria) is popular in both languages, while the o ending for boys' names is not. A Spanish Marco becomes an Anglo Mark; Antonio similarly becomes Anthony, and Teodoro becomes Theodore. "If names exert an influence on their own," Jasso says, "then Hispanic girls will be more likely to assimilate, and to assimilate more quickly than boys...