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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: United Kingdom, Argentina, Conservative Party (UK), National Coal Corporation, Margaret Thatcher
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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: Food and Drug Administration, Health Treatments, American Academy of Pediatrics, Judges, 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: United Kingdom, Hillary Clinton, Government, The New York Times, Barack Obama
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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: Turkey, John Kerry, Human Interest, U.S. Department of State, Afghanistan
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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: Employment Opportunities, Kamala D. Harris, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Elections
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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: University of Chicago, Abusive Behavior, Sex Crimes, Justice and Rights, Civil 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: Maryland Chamber of Commerce, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Labor Legislation, Justice System
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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: Frank Lloyd Wright, Authors
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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: Nelson Mandela, Jimmy Carter, Abusive Behavior, Human Rights, Drugs and Medicines
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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: The New York Times, PBS (tv network), The Washington Post, Book
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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: Journalism, The New York Times, Washington, DC, Arts and Culture, Elections
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President Obama doesn't have a 'pastor problem'
It was a sad moment for many Republicans during the 2008 presidential contest when Arizona Sen. John McCain refused to let his staff use the fiery left-wing sermons of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright against Illinois Sen. Barack Obama. Yoking Obama to his...
Tags: Bill Ayers, Republican Party, U.S. Congress, Justice and Rights, Illegal Immigrants
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