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Chris Spags, 24, who works full-time in public relations and performs stand-up comedy part-time, created the site about a month ago. In an e-mail to TIME, Spags wrote that the point of Maybe You Shouldn't Buy That is to "take a look at our excesses as a society rather than just go, 'Hey, silly pictures.'" But this is a recession, and everyone's hoping to capitalize in one way or another. Spags admits that he would like to use the site as a springboard for a possible book deal, but feels that "any revenue...
...president of the Harvard African Students Association, says, “Gumboots was one of the dance groups we wanted because it is something a lot of people are not familiar with.” “Bafana, bafana.” The dancers halt, stand, and salute. “Saluti!” they ululate, as a tribute to those that inspired their dance, honoring a story about perseverance and triumph, about reaching out and looking homewards, about celebrating an African rhythm. —Staff writer Margherita Pignatelli can be reached at mpignat@fas.harvard.edu...
Every four years, hundreds of Iranians register to stand as candidates in the country's presidential election. Women have signed up to run since 1997 - yet no female has ever been certified by the government to run for President. This month, 42 women were among the 475 people who signed up, harboring hope that this time, there was a real chance for a female candidate to stand...
Women, however, are not a solid ideological bloc. Reformist women like Ebtekar and Sadr stand in almost direct opposition to would-be presidential candidates like Bayat who, despite her outspokenness, espouses a different vision of women's rights. A representative in Iran's majlis (or legislature), she and her female colleagues reinstituted gender segregation in the seating of the parliament. They worked to reverse efforts by female reformist MPs in the previous session to join the U.N.'s Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). Such membership would have obliged the Iranian government to abolish...
...Although Cameron's response to the public outrage has been deft, his own party has suffered collateral damage. He lost his senior adviser, Andrew MacKay, over revelations that MacKay and his MP wife submitted overlapping claims for their housing. Tory grandee Douglas Hogg announced today that he will stand down at the next election, after billing the public purse for maintenance of his moated Lincolnshire mansion. And there's evidence that all three main parties - Labour, Conservatives (Tory) and Liberal Democrats - could feel the backlash against Westminster's culture of venality at the European and local elections scheduled for June...