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...center protesting the sexism of Imus' remarks? And where have they been all these years as the gangsta rappers have labeled women "hos," enabling that derogatory word to become commonplace? In the good ole days of feminism, Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan would have been as visible and vocal as Jackson and Sharpton. In the current storm, sexism has taken second place to racism. Jean M. Alberti, LOMBARD, ILLINOIS, U.S. A white man from an older generation chose the wrong slang to use, and it ended his career. I am not defending what Imus said; I only defend his right...
...Shope said that a sustainable farm would be a good way to connect undergraduates to their environment. “Students are often very out of touch with the land,” she says in the video, which includes interviews with faculty and students, as well as a vocal tribute to the project. “And building a farm in an urban community could be a model for other schools to potentially follow.” And according to the members of the Harvard Medical School’s Center for Health and the Global Environment interviewed...
...gods have trumped Rosie O'Donnell: she's announced her resignation from The View, citing a contract dispute with ABC. Vocal O'Donnell basher Donald Trump, with whom the outspoken comedian has conducted a colorful public feud, shared a different theory with FOX NEWS: "Barbara [Walters] is the happiest person in the world that Rosie's been fired." SCORE...
...Though he's never been a vocal green, Abe seems to have seized on global warming as way for Japan to express its power in a soft way, moving the focus to the future rather than the country's controversial past. There is "a mind shift that it is politically wise to take the leadership on environmental issues," says Hye Sook Park, a professor of environmental geography at Japan's Mie University...
...campus in which many students complain of a woeful dearth of sexual activity, there is an increasingly vocal population of students choosing to opt out of what they call Harvard’s hook-up culture. Over 100 of these abstinent students make up the student group, True Love Revolution (TRL), which has garnered campus and national media attention, not all of it positive, for its mission of abstinence...