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...female “purity.” But gaining awareness doesn’t necessarily mean jumping into bed. It does mean being informed, knowing what we want and when we want it. When women educate themselves, we challenge the sexualized and objectified image of women that popular culture promotes. A woman who understands her body and desires knows what gives her pleasure and can base her decisions on what she wants, not what society wants from her. When a woman can say “I want to have sex” not because her partner wants...
This Sunday, another large turnout is expected for the run-off election as the French choose between the two remaining candidates—Nicolas Sarkozy of the right-of-center Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party and the Socialist Party’s Ségolène Royal. Although we welcome the overwhelming signs of democratic strength in France, only one vote will move the country toward far-reaching reforms that La République requires—a vote for Nicolas Sarkozy...
...proposes to increase the minimum monthly salary by 20 percent to 1500 euros, and insists she will leave the controversial 35-hour week untouched. These proposals are fiscally irresponsible and are not calculated to increase private employment or the integration of minorities into the workforce. Royal is much more popular in the banlieues than the law-and-order immigration skeptic, Sarkozy, who has an unfortunate—and perhaps calculated—weakness for rhetoric with a racist edge. But Royal seems stuck in an antiquated and romantic socialism that offers minorities politically correct rhetoric in lieu of the prospect...
...help their peers.” DAPA is perhaps best known on campus as the group that offers money to pay for food and non-alcoholic drinks at undergraduate parties. The grant program debuted during last November’s Harvard-Yale weekend and has since become wildly popular, Travis said. It boasts an endowment of nearly $20,000. Travia said that some of the DAPA grant program’s popularity can be attributed to the differences between it and a similar party grant program offered by the Undergraduate Council (UC). Unlike the UC grants, the DAPA grants...
...said, “is that once anyone has installed a surveillance, someone is always wanting to use it.” In this case, the one who wants to use it is the U.S. government. Mayer-Schoenberger said the U.S has subpoenaed Google and a number of other popular search engines for use of their personally identifiable search inquiry records as a counter-terrorism measure. “Google is committed to protecting user privacy while abiding by the law,” said Victoria Grand, a Google spokeswoman. “Last year, we went to court...