Word: shaked
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...rejecting that intolerance, let's not kid ourselves that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a champion of women's rights. I have attended meetings where his Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputies chose not to shake my hand simply because I'm a woman. I know that hardly any of the AKP deputies have wives who work; when one of them sought to file charges against her husband for allegedly beating her, she was quickly dissuaded. I have watched Erdogan's daughter (who studied in the U.S. because of the ban) come home, get married and disappear. There...
...That’s the only possible way that I could continue to have my career continue at the level it currently is at and giving my kids their fair shake,” adds Athey. And her career certainly is at a high level—she became the first woman to win the prestigious John Bates Clark Medal...
...citizen since 2003 and a professed liberal. “I’m so glad that reason somehow prevailed, and that [Rudy Giuliani] is no longer ‘America’s Mayor,’” he says. However, he finds it hard to shake his cynicism, and says, “I fear that the Democrats might still find a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.”Vowell focuses on current events of a different nature, discussing her thoughts on the current Writers’ Guild Strike both...
...debut of her latest music video in glorious 3-D. Ironically, in taking this step into uncharted territory, the artistic innovation we have come to expect from Elliott actually suffered. The video, directed by Dave Meyers, features “Ching-A-Ling” and “Shake Your Pom Pom” off the “Step Up 2 The Streets” soundtrack. To make the video, Elliott and Meyers teamed up with Walt Disney Studios, the same people behind the 3-D work in Hannah Montana’s Best of Both Worlds Tour...
...range of small, protected business sectors, as proposed in a study by an expert panel commissioned by Sarkozy to find ways of stimulating economic growth. The commission is headed by Jacques Attali - a former adviser to late Socialist President François Mitterrand who backs Sarkozy's effort to shake up France - and its report enraged small businesses like taxi drivers, pharmacists, hairstylists and convenience store operators with deregulation proposals that owners say will seriously undermine their livelihoods. Though Sarkozy immediately dismissed a few of the 316 proposals in the so-called Attali report, he said he'd integrate...