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According to Prime Minister François C. A. Fillon, however, “One must assume the juridical risks of one’s convictions.” President Nicolas P.S. Sarkozy thus clarified the “republican” principles that are supposed to undergird this law before the Council of Ministers on May 19: “We are an old nation, which is assembled around a certain idea of the dignity of the person, and in particular, the woman’s dignity, around a certain idea of living together. The integral veil that totally...

Author: By Judith Surkis | Title: The Tip of the Iceberg | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

...that he “lost his soul / To a woman so heartless.” But she didn’t heist his heart, which beats throughout this mournful disc. On first single “Love Lockdown,” it absolutely pounds. Taiko drums and 808s undergird stabbing piano chords while electro-Gaye Kanye hugs the contours of a repetitious minor-blues melody. It’s the first movement to Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme” gone horribly, stunningly wrong, and Kanye’s regret seeps through the vocoding...

Author: By Jake G. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kanye West | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...placing the Russian flag there," he told TIME. "The Americans placed their flag on the moon, and it doesn't mean the moon became theirs." The Russian acknowledges that though the mission "excited the whole world," it amounted to only a "pinprick" in Moscow's continued efforts to undergird its case for extended sovereignty in the Arctic. (In 2002 a U.N. commission shelved Russia's claim to more of the Arctic for lack of detailed technical evidence.) Nor, despite this summer's bravado, is it clear that Russia has real plans to follow up the Mir expedition. Robert Nigmatulin, director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fight for the Top of the World | 9/19/2007 | See Source »

...think it's exciting that the states are serving as laboratories of democracy. So I'm not going to be saying, here's the only way to get there. I want to set the goals. I want to set the principles that I believe have to undergird the achieving of those goals and I want to set forth the different means of realizing them, and then really have it be part of the conversation, and as I go forward, talking about what I think would work better than other options to get where we need to be. But this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hillary: "I Have to Earn Every Vote" | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

...subject of feminism, how to examine an array of areas of feminist inquiry (including motherhood, marriage and sexuality) and how to engage with the state to further feminist goals. Kavulla paints a picture of unintellectual “groupthink” without fully investigating the complex questions that undergird the discipline...

Author: By Jennifer C. Nash, | Title: Column on Women’s Studies Simple-Minded | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

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