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...Spanish feminists, the small shock of that moment is exactly the point. "It's an important image precisely because it conveys normality," says Marisa Sotelo, president of the Madrid' based Women's Foundation. "It serves a pedagogic function: it shows that women can be and are everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain's Pregnant Defense Minister | 4/15/2008 | See Source »

...don’t think so,” he said with shock and surprise. “I think it’s to have a career, which earns about one third of family income, and then go at home and do about two thirds of the housework...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mansfield 'Pricks' P.C. Harvard | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

...delay is widely seen as a stalling tactic by Mugabe's Zanu-PF regime to give its "shock troops," government-allied mobs known as the "war veterans," to fan out across the country, seize land and intimidate voters in the event of an eventual presidential run-off. Tsvangirai told TIME this week that what was happening in Zimbabwe was a "de facto military coup." Government spokesman Bright Matonga has countered - with no evidence to support his claims, however - that the veterans are trying to resist a program of land seizures by white farmers crossing into Zimbabwe from South Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mugabe Meets African Leaders | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

...three-day stay, we made a pre-airport stop at a homey, British-style pub called the Bull & Bush, a microbrewery where the vintage-beer menu includes a bottle of Thomas Hardy's Ale from 1980 for $35 and a Chimay Grand Reserve from 1999 for $60. To my shock, while I waited for my delayed flight at Denver International, I stopped at the New Belgium Pub, where I had one of its malty Fat Tire ales. I don't know if there are any studies on this, but I think this beer-drinking thing may be addictive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Colorado Beer Trail | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

...Understand Me” (“And there’s always another point of view, / A better way to do the things we do, / And how can you know me and I know you, / If nothing is true?”). Boredom only serves as the first shock wave at the realization that these words are being sung by the same man who penned the Dylanesque “There’s No Home for You Here.” And there’s really no good explanation here, either. None of the musicians involved have...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Raconteurs | 4/8/2008 | See Source »

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