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Still, people tend to regard gender as a straightforward affair, and South Africa is a particularly hard place to be the "other." Apartheid's legacy has been an aggressive racial division that segregates ethnicities into plush suburbs and ghettos. The manner in which South Africa defended Semenya only underlines how obsessed with difference the country remains. When Semenya returned from Berlin, she was met by the leader of the ruling African National Congress Youth League, Julius Malema, who proclaimed the issue was not gender but race: Semenya was a victim of white officials, white media and unpatriotic white South Africans...
...gold medal and not placing can be a fraction of a second. The author, a media consultant, believes that the margin of error for business people is similarly thin in this turbulent economy. Those who would prefer to keep their job--and that would include most of us--can regard the book as a checklist of things you can do to protect your position or get a new one. You may already know many of them, but perhaps it's that one unfamiliar tip that will keep your ass in your Aeron...
...also clear that the nation's educators are still recovering from the comparatively modest changes that the Bush Administration forced on school districts, particularly the NCLB measure, which so emphasized test scores to the exclusion of other educational goals that many experts now regard it as a failure. NCLB has become, in Duncan's estimation, such a "toxic" brand that his Education Department recently tore down the faux red schoolhouse emblazoned with the law's name that sat outside its main entrance in downtown Washington. Duncan will be instrumental in rewriting NCLB, starting with the name. "We'll probably...
...tour through both the claustrophobic history of the Kennedy family and the tumultuous latter half of the 20th century, True Compass is clearly Teddy's attempt at burnishing his legacy. In that regard, he is less than successful, though - he often seems more concerned with telling the story of the times than he is in telling the story of his accomplishments (for which he makes a surprisingly anemic case). There's a feeling at points that he's ticking off moments in history, rather than grappling with them. But it's clearly the personal anecdotes that readers will flock...
...Even then, a number of different domestic political factors will keep Pakistan on the sidelines of any showdown over Iran's nuclear program. With anti-Americanism running high - an August poll by the Pew Research Center revealed that 64% of Pakistanis "regard [the U.S.] as an enemy" - backing new sanctions against Iran could provoke a domestic backlash. "It would be seen as Pakistan against the Muslim world," says analyst Fair. (See pictures of people around the world protesting Iran's election...