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...Myers, the first White House press secretary in Bill Clinton's administration, was also the first woman to hold that post. She has just published Why Women Should Rule the World - part political memoir, part reported rhetoric, part feminist manifesto. Myers spoke with TIME's Lisa Takeuchi Cullen about confronting Leon Panetta on her pay, why she won't endorse Hillary Clinton, and whether or not women rule her own household...
...TIME:You were appointed the country's first female White House press secretary. Yet you were stiffed when it came to proper pay, authority and even the press secretary's rightful office. When you went to argue for a raise, [then chief of staff] Leon Panetta told you you didn't deserve what a male colleague of lower rank made because you weren't a man supporting a family. Would that have happened if a woman was your boss...
...Comcast spokesperson said that the company had paid people to serve as placeholders for Comcast employees and supporters who wanted to attend the hearing. The spokesperson said the company decided to hire people to save seats after seeing the numerous press releases and blog posts Free Press had published to encourage its supporters to attend the event...
...plans to provide textual, photographic, and graphical descriptions of every organism on the planet in order to provide comparative data for different species, as well as a means of identifying large-scale trends in species growth and movement, according to the press release for the Web site’s unveiling...
Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan was at the end of his rope this week. The diplomat has been the often-optimistic mediator at talks in Kenya aimed to resolve the dispute over December's presidential elections between President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga. But at a press conference on Tuesday, a visibly frustrated Annan said he would suspend the peace talks that had continually stalled due to hard-liners on both negotiating teams. Annan said he was then going to "take the matters up" with the leaders themselves...