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...myth stops and where inconsequential delight in aesthetic products begins has dominated feminist debates for decades. One proposed solution, advanced by the so-called “girlie” feminists, is for women to reappropriate traditional models of femininity in much the same manner as gays reclaimed the term “queer” and blacks reclaimed the term “nigger.” According to this movement, almost any choice that a woman makes—from exposing her midriff to getting off on camera—can be empowering, provided that it is executed...

Author: By Courtney A. Fiske | Title: Feminist Bad Faith | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

...school districts to do things that we don't actually know are going to make things better," says Ravitch, who is critical of the accountability movement's emphasis on standardized testing. "My biggest problem with Duncan and Obama on education is that they are giving Bush a third term in education." Duncan counters that he is merely breaking down walls--borrowing a little bit from the left, a little bit from the right. "I just want to do what works," says Duncan, who is planning a multicity listening tour with Newt Gingrich and Al Sharpton. "There are great ideas everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Arne Duncan (And $5 Billion) Fix America's Schools? | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

...first time, a rapprochement that could thaw a dispute dating back to World War I. The heart of the feud has been Istanbul's refusal to acknowledge the massacre of up to 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks as "genocide"--a near unanimous designation among scholars. Turkey prefers a term that means "mass deportation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

...when I had him on my radio show. He was supposed to chat for an hour but stayed for three. He was your ideal guest: passionate, humorous and extraordinarily honest. Dunne was the first to admit that when he covered high-profile crimes, he was "prosecution-oriented." The careful term alluded to the first and most painful trial he ever witnessed--that concerning his daughter Dominique, a 22-year-old actress who was strangled to death by an ex-boyfriend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dominick Dunne | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

...does the U.S. need an ambassador-at-large for war-crimes issues? This position was established during the second term of the Clinton Administration. [It] was particularly needed in the '90s, when we saw the beginning of international criminal tribunals for the first time since Nuremberg, with the establishment of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and then the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, both with the support of the U.S. This office focused on coordinating the cooperation that these tribunals needed to bring people to trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stephen Rapp: Obama's Point Man on War Crimes | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

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