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...upbringing,” she said. Women who complete primary and secondary school are more likely to educate their children, said Gupta, whose mother and grandmother both completed college. “Eliminating gender disparity in primary and secondary education,” one of the U.N. Millenium Goals with which Gupta is involved, has been cited by the U.N. as central to improving the lives of women and children. In addition to education, Gupta said access to economic resources, freedom to choose family size through reproductive rights, and “a supportive social and cultural context?...
...policy proposal for the scholarship, Liscow advocated that President Bush’s Millenium Challenge Account—a foreign aid program—should include environmental policy criteria for recipient nations, in addition to the education and health policy requirements already in place...
...hideaway in an area now controlled by Bosnian Muslims. Perhaps this small Catholic cell had been here during the ethnic cleansing, or maybe they were shuffled here thereafter—either way, this was the Church’s frontier crew, antisocial monstrosities of the kind created by a millenium-plus of facing repression with dogged determination...
...lose credibility with their traditional allies—gays, abortion rights supporters, the left. When they kowtow to Bush, they weaken attempts to reach out to unions, to black and Hispanic voters, to university professors who must be persuaded that Israel is not the South Africa of the new millenium. Why do we always fall back on the line that Israel is the one democracy in the Middle East? It’s true—but have black Americans historically had much luck with democracy at home? Why not point out that unlike America, Israel has no racist death...
...widening corruption scandal swirling around President Kim Dae Jung and his Millenium Democratic Party (MDP) has boosted the buzz level. Last week, prosecutors arrested presidential son Kim Hong Up on charges of bribery and influence-peddling. He joins Kim Hong Gul, the President's youngest son, now under indictment for bribery. The scandal has deflated support for MDP presidential candidate Roh Moo Hyun, widely seen as President Kim's horse in the December poll (Kim is constitutionally barred from running again). Party members are also alarmed about the shellacking the MDP got in local elections in early June. The smart...