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...mild suggestion that Democrats should pay more attention to rural America. Indeed, a good example of the Reid style can be found in his handling of that hottest of issues, abortion. He opposes it except in cases of rape, incest or when the life of the mother is at stake. But he has leavened that position with vehement support for contraception. He joined with Maine Republican Olympia Snowe to offer a bill ordering private health-insurance plans to cover birth control. He successfully filibustered for including such coverage in federal-employee health plans. Kate Michelman, former head of naral...
Leave the La Perla at home. Without individual stalls, the communal changing room is a feeding frenzy of women disrobing in the open, so modest underwear may be a better choice. Stake out a corner and don’t worry: everyone is too focused on their own perceived flaws to notice...
...eleven states were presented with ballot initiatives that would amend state constitutions to define marriage as between one man and one woman, and all eleven adopted the amendments by large percentages. But the literature promoting the initiatives makes it clear that marriage is not really the issue at stake. The debate focused on whether homosexuality was acceptable, in wedlock or out of it. That paints the new amendments as an even more major defeat, and calls for a new strategy for advocating gay rights. Harvard students in particular have a chance to make a real impact on issues of sexuality...
...prestigious S&P 500 stock index next month. That's giving it a boost. But Murdoch's plan for his two thirtysomething sons to succeed him remains a drag on the stock. Adding weight to the anchor: since Malone, who runs Liberty Media, arranged to increase his stake in News to 17% from 9% two weeks ago, Murdoch, who owns 30% of voting shares, has built an elaborate defense to discourage anyone from trying to wrest away control...
...News' nonvoting shares and said he was willing to convert those shares into voting stock and buy even more. A second prong of defense emerged earlier, when Murdoch's board adopted a "poison pill" provision that would make it hugely expensive for Malone to add to his stake. Poison pills don't sit well with shareholder groups. "They generally are adopted by boards unilaterally just when shareholders least like to see them," says Ann Yerger, acting executive director at the Council of Institutional Investors...