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Pelosi will be the first woman ever to serve as Speaker of the House and the first Democrat to hold that position in a dozen years—a period when, Pelosi told Newsweek, no Democratic bill made it onto the House floor...
...Despite the dramatic gains by the Democrats, Newsweek assistant managing editor Evan W. Thomas ’73 said that he didn’t foresee dramatic changes on Capitol Hill...
...Increasingly, however, there is reason to believe that conventional wisdom is mistaken. Granted, young people are disillusioned, but this hardly distinguishes them from the rest of the population. President George W. Bush’s approval ratings are consistently low, and according to Newsweek over half of adults now believe the country is on the wrong track. But instead of letting dissatisfaction give way to apathy, youth are realizing that simply ignoring politics is not the answer. Indeed, a new poll of youth nationwide by Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP) survey group found that 71 percent...
...recent Newsweek article revealed that designer Nicole Miller plans to begin offering a size even smaller than those we’ve become accustomed to: “something tentatively called the ‘subzero’ for women with 23.5-inch waists and 35-inch hips.” Within the same article, readers’ attention was drawn to the increasingly popular fashion industry phenomenon of “vanity sizing,” which entails enlarging the size of the actual clothing, while allowing the number on the tag to remain unchanged. The result, which...
...other end of the spectrum, you have the potential problems caused by vanity sizing, problems given far less attention in the Newsweek article. Vanity sizing skews away from encouraging women to be too small, and instead might allow them to become complacent in weight ranges that are too high to be healthy. Rather than attacking the root of the problems for women who feel overweight, and encouraging them to adopt more healthy lifestyles to take more control of their self-image, vanity sizing panders to their insecurities. For women who are truly overweight, allowing them to believe that they?...