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...this would be material for that central column, but for the fact Daniel Pearl, whose wife, Marianne, is pregnant with their first child, is being held somewhere in Karachi, Pakistan, with a gun to his head. By kidnappers who do not appear to know what they are doing. Pearl's old boss scoffs at the idea he was working for anybody but his editors - "Of all the reporters who worked in the Washington bureau he had the most jaundiced view of government," Jill Abramson told the New York Times. This is a journalist - a journalist in deep trouble...
...takes most shows a while to find their rhythm. But First Monday (CBS, Fridays, 9 p.m. E.T.), a new Supreme Court drama, immediately settles into a groove of pregnant pause followed by cliche. The makers of JAG are not masters of subtlety, and while that might be fine for a show about a military court, the Supreme Court requires a bit more nuance. Yet First Monday has a Chief Justice (James Garner) who begins each session by making all nine Justices put a hand in the middle, football-huddle style, and yell, "Let's go make history." The cases--about...
...rule at the Virginia Military Institute has at least one women's legal group in an uproar. And their ire is perfectly understandable - if totally misdirected. The regulation, formally issued January 14th, demands the voluntary departure of cadets who get married, become pregnant, or cause someone else to become pregnant. Unfair, charges the National Women's Law Center; the new rules violate anti-discrimination laws established to protect pregnant women. The NWLC is right; the VMI rules are discriminatory - but not for the reasons the NWLC argues...
...fact, if VMI's new rule were solely concerned with pregnant women, it might be okay. After all, I don't know any pregnant women who are interested in performing grueling physical exertions while fighting off morning sickness. (A caveat: As someone who has not experienced the rigors of either pregnancy or VMI, I am speaking from a purely theoretical standpoint...
...this rule is about more than keeping pregnant women out of the line of fire. It's about enforcing archaic rules in a way that discriminates against women - in more ways than...