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...back in 1949, the French writer Simone de Beauvoir recognized that because men have traditionally been considered the primary or default model for humanity (wasn’t Eve made of Adam’s rib?), women are judged according to this standard and therefore appear secondary and “inessential...
...Union, politicians across Europe viewed the prospect of Poles moving into their countries with xenophobic disdain. In 2005, Philippe de Villiers, leader of France's Euro-skeptic Mouvement pour la France, darkly warned of the "Polish plumber and Estonian architect" triggering "the demolition of France's social and economic model." Before the E.U. admitted 10 new members in 2004, populist fears of unwashed hordes stealing jobs from locals led most of the old E.U. countries, including Germany, Austria and France, to seal their labor markets. In the end, only three of the E.U.'s then 15 countries--Ireland, Britain...
...Once, we had a very simple distribution model, our own branded store," Mark Thompson, director general of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), told me. Now "we've got to get used to an environment where people access our content in a variety of different ways." Thompson sees this as an opportunity--the BBC signed a deal in early March to set up three new "channels" on Google's YouTube site to show short video clips from its programs and share in the ad revenue YouTube generates. "One of the things no media organization can do now is cancel the future...
...counsel their students into sophomore year.A tally vote from that meeting shows that all members supported the Board of Freshman Advisers option over the House tutors option, the plan ultimately selected. Rinere later explained that the tally results were in response to a question asking committee members which model they would choose if able to start the advising system from scratch.“Often students feel like going to an adviser is like going to a doctor,” she said. “You don’t want to explain your whole history again every year...
...Japan represents a constituency in which the majority of individuals were not of adult age during the Second World War. As such, although it is their duty to do everything in their power to ensure that events similar to those of World War II are never held as a model of acceptable behavior for Japan or any other society, it is simply not appropriate for them to take direct action regarding apology for those events. Such apologies as remain to be given must be given by surviving perpetrators of the WWII tragedies directly to the surviving victims. While...