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...lens until she witnessed the “dissolution of brilliant, beautiful women” at the hands of rape and anorexia. Zook, a 42-year-old journalist and author, said the word “feminism” was never used when she was growing up, but her mother and grandmother “were and are feminists in their own ways.” Even with these roots, Zook is not the same feminist she was in her twenties, she said, mentioning that her evolution even involved a “militant black power stage...
...know better - and that's a sign, I would argue, that they are good Catholics. I didn't convert to Catholicism as a college student because of the church, although I'm the first to acknowledge that my church, like most churches, is capable of sublime holiness, a la Mother Teresa. I converted to a religion that I felt more meaningfully engaged my spirituality because it more meaningfully engaged my humanity - and, as strange as this sounds to my atheist friends, because it more meaningfully engaged my reason, not just my senses (although I'm as much a sucker...
...most of its history, Paraguay has been almost a caricature of the right-wing South American military republic. Its infamous 19th-century dictator, General Francisco Solano Lopez had his own mother flogged in public and then made the nation's Roman Catholic bishops declare him a saint; its equally villainous 20th-century tyrant, General Alfredo Stroessner, turned the country into a haven for Nazi war criminals. Ever since, Paraguay has struggled to be seen as something more than a benighted agricultural backwater wedged between Brazil and Argentina...
...It’s counterintuitive,” said Linda Chang, a mother of four whose husband attends the Harvard Kennedy School. “You think when you’re awake and active you burn more calories than when you sleep...
...gives way, slowly, to a more expressive man.Soon, however, Tarek is arrested in the subway and taken to a detention facility. The movie from then on is concerned with the question of whether or not he’ll be deported. As an additional twist, Tarek’s mother Mouna (Hiam Abbass, “Munich”) comes from Michigan to be near her son, although she can’t visit him in jail for fear of being deported herself. The movie starts to get heavy-handed around the time Mouna arrives at Vale?...