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...about the male version: slippery, noisy, awkward, uncomfortable. "The yuck factor was a problem," Mitchell Warren, executive director of the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition, told the New York Times last year about the device's failure to catch on. Then there's the stigma associated with buying condoms, a topic even The Golden Girls once addressed...
Frantic Bookstore customers should be forgiven for riffling through the pages of this slim book. After all, this is the new Nobel laureate in economics addressing the main--perhaps only--topic of conversation these days. But Krugman's assessment is only partly reassuring: "We're not in a depression now, and despite everything, I don't think we're heading into one (although I'm not as sure of that as I'd like to be)." In this updated and revised edition of his prescient 1999 book, the author shows how the Asian and Latin American financial crises...
Philip Roth is elderly and literary, but even in the throes of depression it’s hard to think of him as melancholy. Except on one topic. This past year, after a string of disappointing books about old age—in one of them, a young biographer threatened the peace of mind of a departed writer and his still-living, aged friend—Roth published a highly acclaimed novel, “Indignation,” set in the 1950s. Nonetheless, whenever he’s asked, he seems to shake his head sadly and admit that...
Despite rumors to the contrary, the folks at Saturday Night Live say the topic is effectively closed for discussion. Armisen's Obama is here to stay...
...crime commissions such as the International Independent Inquiry on Kosovo. He also served for nine years as a justice on the Constitutional Court of South Africa. After Goldstone’s keynote address, panelists, including various professors who are members of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, spoke on the same topic. One of the challenges that prevails is the language of the convention itself, according to assistant professor of government and Social Studies Jens Meierhenrich. He cited Article 8 of the convention to point out that the agreement recognized genocide but never gave a way to prevent or punish...