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...What she intended to do was put gender at center stage in thinking about how a nation sustains war,” Ayers says. “We’ve continued to talk about it ever since...
Mitt Romney is, as he reminds audiences in every speech, an optimist. At his last public event before the primary election today, he took the stage and surveyed the not-quite-packed crowd and was ebullient: "They tell me 200 people are waiting outside...
This time, the faces on the stage behind her were young and fresh, not the familiar - and yes, old ones - of the Clinton Administration years. Her larger-than-life husband moved in for the briefest of embraces, and then disappeared. Just in case anyone missed the symbolism, Hillary Clinton made everything explicit with the opening notes of a New Hampshire primary victory speech that had seemed unlikely, even to those around her, just hours before: "Over the last week, I listened to you," said Clinton. "And in the process, I found my own voice...
...Among his contemporaries were the fashion designers Issey Miyake and Kenzo Takada, groundbreaking designers who, along with Uemura, however, continued the centuries-old tradition of Japanese males being the arbiters of female beauty. Men, for example, portrayed women's roles in kabuki plays since women were banned from the stage...
...differences between the two teams are perhaps not as striking as what they have in common. Both are confident and proud groups, a pride that in both cases can easily become self-righteousness. In India, a booming economy and the country's newfound self-confidence on the world stage is imbuing its traditional cricketing nationalism with a new streak of cockiness. The Australians, meantime, blindly believe they can do no wrong on the cricketing field, and are appalled that anyone would question their behavior or motives. When challenged, both teams put a wall up, even if there might...