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Concerned, I called a convenient authority on feminism—my mother, who as a young woman interned for Bella Abzug, and whom I suspect of having once been a radical. (I was once convinced that she was an ex-member of the Weather Underground very effectively disguised as a suburban matron, due to her liberal leanings and a suspicious lack of anecdotes about her past.) Anyway, she confirmed that replacing “girl” with “woman” had once been a central concern of feminists...
Typically, most people try to assign such an inglorious distinction to autumn, a time which precedes the snowy festivities of winter and comes right after the good weather has just about run its course. And logic, at least on the surface, works...
...also work in the summer—seriously cutting into time for sports, playing or watching—and I’d be foolish to begin to misrepresent the season as a utopia that swings around every few months and rids one of all kinds of bad weather, depression, and responsibility...
...vote in 1999, raised doubts about Megawati's prospects in July's presidential poll. MEANWHILE IN THE U.K. ... Flying Fowl A parliamentary committee revealed that eight Chinook helicopters bought by the Ministry of Defense at a cost of $475 million can't fly in cloudy weather. Since the MOD cannot check whether the choppers meet British safety standards, they are restricted to flying above 150 m in clear skies, and have not been used in Afghanistan or Iraq. The committee chairman said the MOD "might as well have bought eight turkeys...
...Referees are kind of like the weather,” said Tylander. “It’s not really something you can control...