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...Wasserstrom is a professor of history at U.C. Irvine and the author of Global Shanghai, 1850-2010: A History in Fragments...
Which sounds fine, and what you would expect from a former constitutional law professor. But by talking only of women's dress (with a nod to their right to education) Obama ignored the many challenges Muslim women face, such as polygamy, early marriage, honor killings or the legalized sexism of family laws across the Muslim world. Little wonder that in the blogopshere, he managed to unite feminists and conservatives in fury at his reduction of Muslim women to nothing more than what they wear on their heads. "Why this emphasis on the hijab," blogged Amal Amireh, a Palestinian feminist...
...hard is it to manage and maintain these trade boosters? Ed Collom, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Southern Maine, has studied volunteer-run programs like Ithaca's and found that about 80% failed, chiefly because of administrative burnout. That's why many newer models, like BerkShares, are now set up as nonprofits, complete with administrative support...
...times in personal conversations and in public that he made mistakes, and he wanted others to avoid those mistakes," Nye said. On a post to his blog on the Huffington Post, Nye wrote that "the lives of leaders are more complicated than I thought when I was an assistant professor," and that while part of him will never forgive McNamara for the consequences of his mistakes in Vietnam, McNamara has also earned his respect by trying "to come to terms with his actions and to help a younger generation to learn...
...After finishing his education, he briefly worked in accounting before returning to HBS as an assistant professor. But he took leave to help direct the Allied air war in WWII, and then left academia afterwards to work at Ford Motor Company—where he later became President—because his Harvard salary was not enough to pay the medical bills when both he and his wife came down with cases of polio...