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...help navigating the U.S. educational and employment systems. She published a guide for Latino job seekers in 2005 and followed it quickly with one for parents and then another for professionals. A book for parents of high school students will arrive in the fall. Lately, Dabbah has added "speaker" and "consultant" to her business card. "Next I want to have my own TV and radio program," she says...
...face a loss of apocalyptic proportions." And that's the bad news for Rudy. "The vast majority of those people will not vote for Rudy. The three marriages is a deal killer." Airbrushing his social conservative credentials won't help, Land says. "That would be true of [Former House Speaker Newt] Gingrich as well, who's pro-life. The vast majority of white evangelicals are not going to vote for man in his third marriage, who was unfaithful to his wife in previous marriages." Even if he's running against the candidate conservatives love to hate? "Even against Hillary," Land...
...Tony Blair promised Lords reform when he came to power in 1997 and two years later Labour duly replaced most of the hereditary Lords and Ladies with appointed peers, ignoring the protests of angry aristos such as the Earl of Burford, who vaulted onto the Speaker's chair, bellowing, "What we are witnessing is the abolition of Britain!" The government's attempt in 2003 to initiate a second stage of reform went nowhere when MPs rejected every option for a new upper house laid before them. The Prime Minister had argued for an all-appointed house, saying a chamber with...
Harvard students crammed into a House common room to solicit sex tips from a septuagenarian last night. The speaker was famed sex therapist Dr. Ruth, who was hosting a question-and-answer session in Cabot House. Her topics ranged from bawdy to serious—from the definition of oral sex and myths about masturbation on the one hand, to contraception, abortion, and homosexuality on the other. In her opening remarks, Dr. Ruth set out to expose the truth behind rumors about human sexuality. “The size of the penis,” she said...
...reason for the street action is the sad reality of the Putin regime long denying its opponents any legitimate public fora. The mainstream media are subdued, and "the Parliament is not a place for discussion," as the Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov succinctly put it in 2005. When people are denied the right to discuss their life on the parliament floor or in the media, they're forced into the street - and into strange alliances. The Other Russia, in fact, is an unlikely motley amalgamation: members of the traditional democratic and liberal Yabloko party; new liberal factions, The United Civic Front...