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...graduate students say the building will provide much-needed relief in the tight Cambridge housing market and argue that undergraduates don’t fully understand their plight...
...Bush brought down the house the next night with a string of withering one-liners that skewered her husband's sleeping (and, well, never mind) habits, her in-laws' hyperkinetic vacation style, the Vice President's seemingly willful resistance to exercise and, of course, her own poor, pitiful plight as a long-suffering spouse. "Ladies and gentlemen, I am a desperate housewife," she deadpanned. "I mean, if those women on that show think they're desperate, they oughta be with George." If the performance turns out to be Laura's most memorable, it was also a reminder that the least...
...choice of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somalian-born Dutch politician and director whose film Submission portrays a Muslim woman ritually abused by the men in her family. As a female practicing Muslim living in the West, I have found it frustrating that the Western media are obsessed with the "plight" of Muslim women. While there is progress to be made in women's rights in the Muslim world, change does not necessarily have to occur within the Western framework. Most Muslims find Hirsi Ali too extreme, though we don't agree with honor killings. Why couldn't you pick someone...
Scott also points to the socio-economic plight of Native Americans, saying that many people are unaware that Natives have the second shortest lifespan of any ethnic group in North America...
...choice of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born Dutch politician and director whose film Submission portrays a Muslim woman ritually abused by the men in her family. As a female practicing Muslim living in the West, I have found it frustrating that the Western media are obsessed with the "plight" of Muslim women. While there is progress to be made in women's rights in the Muslim world, change does not necessarily have to occur within the Western framework. Most Muslims find Hirsi Ali too extreme, though we don't agree with honor killings. Why couldn't you pick someone...