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Margaret Thatcher death: Tributes, criticism from around the world
In Britain and around the world, supporters of the late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher celebrated her legacy Monday. Even some of her sharpest critics said she defined an era in British public life -- if not always for the right reasons. Among those...Tags: Government Ministers, United Kingdom, Career and Workplace, Civil Rights, Tony Blair
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Swashbuckler on the grandest stage
WASHINGTON -- When I met Margaret Thatcher she was out of office, watching with more than a touch of amusement as her successor, John Major, meandered from crisis to disappointment to sticky wicket. Major seemed in thrall to events, not in command of...
Tags: National Coal Corporation, United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher, Conservative Party (UK), Argentina
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Common sense on Plan B
Last week, a federal district judge in New York ruled that girls younger than 17 should be allowed to purchase the Plan B contraceptive pill over the counter. Unlike the Obama administration, Judge Edward Korman got this one right. The 2011 decision by...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Abortion, Birth Control, Barack Obama, Jay Carney
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Margaret Thatcher, Hillary Clinton and the glass ceiling
Margaret Thatcher was a historic, transformational figure who did many amazing and contradictory things in her life. She was a free market authoritarian who metaphorically bashed her opponents with her famous handbag until they submitted to her will. In...Tags: Hillary Clinton, London Fashion Week, United Kingdom, Politics, The New York Times
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John Kerry's remarks on killing of Anne Smedinghoff
The full text, from the State Department, of Secretary of State John Kerry's remarks today in Istanbul on the killing Saturday in Afghanistan of State Department diplomat Anne Smedinghoff, a native of west suburban River Forest. According to the State...Tags: U.S. Department of State, Turkey, Afghanistan, Human Interest, John Kerry
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President Obama: When making nice can be naughty
Does it matter that President Obama was right? That Kamala Harris is “the best-looking attorney general in the country”? Not really. As a quip, it failed; as an attempt at gallantry, it didn’t need saying. The president cushioned his...
Tags: Hillary Clinton, Kamala D. Harris, Elections, Lawyers, Racism
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Denice Wolf Markham
Denice Wolf Markham clearly remembers her aunt's bruises and black eyes and, just as infuriating, the silence that hung in the air around them. "It was just sort of tacitly accepted," Markham recalls. "No one ever said a thing about it. And I thought...
Tags: Lawyers, Criminals, University of Chicago, Civil Rights, Justice and Rights
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Bill to give pregnant workers more rights passes Senate
Legislation that would strengthen the rights of pregnant women in the workplace has now passed both chambers of the General Assembly and will go to the governor's desk for signing. The Senate passed the House version of the bill Thursday allowing it...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Maryland Chamber of Commerce
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Ladies of the Evening
LOTE began 20 years ago as an offshoot of parenting classes held at the elementary school. Now those fourth graders are all 30+ years old, and we still all live within walking distance of one another. "Ladies of the Evening" was coined when we all had...Tags: Authors, Frank Lloyd Wright
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Out of the Blue: Time for a little maternal patricide
Jimmy Carter in 2009 announced he was severing ties with the Southern Baptist Convention after six decades because the leadership clings to the doctrine that "women are subservient to their husbands, and prohibited from serving as deacons, pastors or...Tags: Roman Catholicism, Hewlett-Packard Co., Jimmy Carter, Drugs and Medicines, Human Rights
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Everyone's leaning in on Sheryl Sandberg
Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg's "Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead" doesn’t officially publish until next week, but it has already stirred controversy across the media, rallying both critics and defenders to its cause,...Tags: Book, The Washington Post, PBS (tv network), The New York Times
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The Day Women Marched For The Vote
A century ago Sunday, Alice Paul, a 27-year-old upstart member of the women's suffrage movement, decided it was time for activists to stop being good girls. The campaign for women's suffrage was more than 60 years old and going nowhere in 1912. For...
Tags: Voting, U.S. Congress, Arts and Culture, Politics, Elections
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