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...setting - behind a desk, with microphone and tape recorder - and then listens in on conversations between men in more public places, restaurants, apartment buildings, parties and such. In the film's last scene, we find out that she's studying the impact of feminism, although the interactions we witness seem mostly directed toward proving the thesis Men Are Awful, or, put in Wallace terms, "A Supposedly Fun Gender I Should Avoid Forever...
...sidewalks seem less clogged with Bugaboo strollers these days and you can't remember the last time you had to diaper a doll at a baby shower, it's not your imagination or fuzzy memory. Birth rates in the U.S. fell 2% in 2008, the biggest drop in nearly four decades, and that trend is expected to continue. A new study out Sept. 23 from the Guttmacher Institute suggests that the timing is not a coincidence; the recession may be to blame, as women factor economic anxieties into their decision about having children...
Whoever wrote that comment does not seem to have bothered to do a simple Google search: Kim is Korean, not Chinese...
...many Democrats did for Bush, they need to resort to a different approach. It’s possible to make fun of President Obama—Saturday Night Live does it quite effectively—but the Republican party’s stunts have only succeeded in making it seem childish, boorish, and even racist. A couple of months ago, for example, a legislative aide to Sen. Diane Black (R-Tenn.) emailed out a picture of previous, white presidents followed by a black portrait with only two oversized eyes portraying Obama—supposedly meant to remind...
...than foreign ones. Indeed, he may be headed for the most successful domestic-policy year by a Democratic President since Lyndon Johnson's legislative tidal wave of 1965. Obama has pushed through a $787 billion stimulus package and doubled down on the Bush Administration's financial-crisis remedies, which seem to have prevented an economic crash. He is making quiet but substantial progress on education reform; his energy policy will probably be all carrots and no sticks - that is, no cap-and-trade program for carbon emissions - but it will provide a significant boost to green-energy industries. And despite...