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...walking with a fellow financial writer who was recalling his cub days, working the night police beat in a smallish Southern city. When the cops there were uncooperative, he would get his stories by knocking on the doors of victim?s families, asking if they would mind talking to a reporter about their son or daughter who had been killed that night. Ghoulish work - and yet these newly bereaved, he said, were often willing, even eager to sit down with him. They didn?t have many other people around to talk...
This is not your mother's feminism. Ensler is a self-confessed survivor of sexual and physical abuse by her father and of drugs and alcohol. Yet she does not think women should be stuck with the role of victim. Instead, The Vagina Monologues is a joyous, sometimes poignant and often hilarious exploration of women's conflicted feelings about their vaginas. The play--which has been known to propel women in the audience to their feet, whooping and stomping in recognition--has been performed from Antarctica to Zaire. It is currently playing in more than 25 countries and is almost...
...market in East Timor, a stone's throw from Indonesian West Timor. At this cross-border bazaar, children wheel through the bustle like sparrows as veterans of the pro-Indonesian militia that razed the country two years ago mingle with farmers, stallholders and smugglers. Rosina was not the only victim of the May 29 attack; in their rage over a gambling debt, former members of the Dangi Dadaras Merah Putih militia killed four other people and wounded more than...
Perhaps surprisingly amidst the outburst of prejudice against South Asian people, Shah Mohammed is not althogether gloomy about the future. His biggest worry is that innocent people in countries like Afghanistan may fall victim to American retaliation. Many in the Islamic community at Harvard have families in Middle Eastern countries and fear what will happen, Shah Mohammed said...
...they will change some aspect of their personal life to reduce the chances of becoming a victim of terror. (The figure was 24% after the Oklahoma City bombing...