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Fielding questions from Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan and an audience made up mostly of Law School alumnae, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke Saturday about women in law and gave insight into her experiences on the nation’s highest court...
...bags.“I did. And I presume that you have spoken to the tenants and... other servants,” the Viscountess replied. There had been a questioning lilt to her voice.“I did.”“I hope that you spoke in a manner befitting your station,” Felicity continued, in the same questioning lilt.“As much as you have acted in a manner befitting your station,” Frederick said.“At least my faults and actions are not generational...
...been walking past cafés where Hemingway drank himself into (and out of) depression. An American in Paris, I couldn’t help but think about that earlier, more famous group of Americans in Paris: Fitzgerald, Stein, Miller, Hemingway. (The fact that every other person I spoke to brought up “A Moveable Feast,” the precious book where Hemingway nostalgically trashes all of his friends and mentors, only encouraged this train of thought.) And so, with only a week left, I finally succumbed to a friend’s insistence that I read...
...days of Austria's far right, in which politicians, including Haider, commended Adolf Hitler's employment programs or spoke sympathetically to groups of former Wehrmacht officers, are over. Instead, Strache, 39, is presenting himself as a rebel and an outsider...
...militants after attempts at negotiations proved fruitless, and believes that its own efforts are undermined by U.S. operations. "The [Pakistani counterinsurgency] operation in Bajaur is the most intense for many years. It is not popular with the public, but we are doing it," says the Zardari aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "And in Waziristan, after a lot of effort we got the Waziri tribes to unite against [Taliban commander] Baitullah Mehsud. But after all these drone strikes, they got dejected...