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...copyright snafu) a liberating force for both sexes. But naturally, some women questioned whether swapping aprons for lingerie constituted a net gain. After some 300 protestors organized by a Chicago women's group picketed the Playboy mansion in 1970, a female secretary leaked to the press a memo that underscored Hef's antipathy toward "militant feminists": "What I'm interested in is the highly irrational, emotional, kookie [sic] trend that feminism has taken...these chicks are our natural enemy. It is time to do battle with them...
...politics—hiring lobbyists, organizing fund-raisers and blanketing Capitol Hill with briefings, phone calls and petitions.” Powerful Washington insiders, including a former U.S. ambassador to India, Robert D. Blackwill, and former Indiana Senator Birch Bayh, were retained by the Indian government in order to press for the deal’s passage. And this organizing came in the face of virtually no counter-lobbying from the Pakistani-American lobby...
...Filkins’s experiences. “I’m going to congratulate him on surviving,” audience member Stephen B. Rice said. Another listner, Mark D. O’Connor, added “It’s people like him that keep our press free and going.” Harvard Book Store staff member Heather L. Gain said the fact that Filkins is a loyal customer to the store was not the only reason they wanted to host the author. “Having a first-hand account is really a crucial...
...parlous state that the government was compelled to spend up to $88 billion in taxpayers' money to secure it. Their emergency rescue plan was hatched over weeks but finalized in such a hurry that bleary officials labored overnight to finish it before the skittish markets opened. At a morning press conference, both men maintained that the problem started with the U.S. sub-prime crisis; Brown refused to answer questions about how Labour policy over more than 10 years in office might have contributed to the situation. "This is the time to talk about the future," he said...
...leaders endured exile, prison, torture and assassination. But after 14 years as South Africa's ruling party, an internal power struggle appears to have finally torn it apart. Senior members of the party on Wednesday announced plans to leave ANC and form a new political party. At a press conference in Johannesburg, Mosiuoa "Terror" Lekota, a former political prisoner who served as national chairman of the party and defense minister, said of the present ANC leadership: "We are serving them divorce papers." Lekota said he would convene a national convention of dissatisfied party members and others to discuss...