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...central to her first novel, “Blood Kin,” which will be published in 14 countries and was released in the U.S this month. Since then, Dovey has been traveling around the country for book readings. Acclaim, travel and a book deal? Maybe those months spent exclusively in carrels wasn’t that...
...matrix of large-scale social problems: natal health risks, dropout rates, and even incarceration figures share an observable, direct link to the number of young mothers. This makes cuts in health-education funding—down 26 percent since 2001—seem especially puzzling; each dollar spent teaching students about birth control and sexual responsibility would seem to save several otherwise spent on law enforcement, penitentiaries, and welfare programs. For a host of reasons, our society is not an accomocating place for a teen who is pregnant. People who are still in many ways children themselves tend to have...
Walsh was a student at West Point when Congress first authorized the 2003 invasion, and remembers thinking the war would be over by the time he graduated. He deployed last August and spent the first six months in Baghdad patrolling the city's southwest side as a Stryker Rifle Platoon leader before becoming a project manager in the country's reconstruction effort...
...have aimed for transparency in your management of the municipality [of Tehran], giving biannual reports on the state of city projects, the monies spent, and putting time limits on development projects. This should be absolutely normal, but in Iran, it's the exception. Why is there such poverty in management here? The main point is that our economy is public and must be privatized. A bill's been signed and we're in that process, but it's much too slow, and the government is investing massively in business at the same time that it's supposed to privatize...
Alkhafaji, an Iraqi citizen, spent a decade in prison after refusing to join Saddam Hussein's Baath party. She escaped to Toronto in 1993, but returned to Iraq after Hussein's fall to join the newly re-formed government. Alkhafaji actively works to improve the status of women in Iraq and recently attended a UN conference in March for the commission of the status of women...