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Wednesday is May Day - or Labor Day - when much of Europe takes a holiday, and the left takes to the streets. This year's big demonstrations promise to stir up deep ideological passions, about everything from immigration to Third World debt to free speech. In Paris, opponents of surprise presidential runner-up Jean-Marie Le Pen plan to confront the far-right nationalist as he leads his annual march in honor of Joan of Arc. Meanwhile, Londoners are braced for a rematch, complete with footballs, between globalization foes and the police who penned them in at Oxford Circus last year...
...focus on what Budbill calls “the most invisible people in America: poor whites,” Judevine confronts a world that is all too present but rarely seen or dramatized. “I like to think of Judevine as a sort of third world country inside the boundaries of the United States. The people you see in Judevine are not the sort you see in the gentrified view of the state of Vermont” says Budbill...
Round one of the Oxfam America Collegiate Click Drive came to a close Monday, with Harvard coming in with a respectable third place finish among Ivy League schools. Every time a student logs on to povertyfighters.com and clicks on his or her college a corporate sponsor donates 25 cents to fund self-employment loans for poor people around the world (though you can only click twice per day). Although the Ivy League didn’t fare as well as the $3,410.25 (13,641 clicks) raised by national winner Birmingham-Southern College, it didn?...
...impetus of the Arab caucus and other third-world countries, the ICC will face a torrent of accusations against Israel and the United States. International organizations where small states have as large a role as major powers create comical scenarios such as Syria replacing the U.S. on a Human Rights Commission. The U.S. should not be party to more of this nonsense than it already...
...strangeness of this premise is only part of what sets Notable American Women apart, as Marcus discusses this world not only in his own voice and the voices of his parents, but in a third-person documentary style as well. The text is scattered with brief historical accounts of important events in the history of the Silentists, which also provides descriptions of experiments concerning the essence of women’s names. (These are remnants of the book’s initial conceptualization: Marcus stumbled across Jane Dark while writing fake historical accounts satirizing the patriarchal and condescending ones...