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“The old Republican Establishment cynically has seen advantage in back-rolling and egging-on the Tea Party movement. Its members served as their shock troops in besieging the Obama White House, spearheading the war against Democrats, liberals and whomever dared challenge their plutocratic consolidation. In the process, they became captives to a diabolical force that they cannot …
New figures suggest that the number of women and girls who have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) may be up to 70m higher than estimated last year. A recent Unicef report said that up to 200m procedures have been carried out in 30 countries around the world. Somalia has the highest rate, with 98 per …
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Last summer in The New York Times, Victor Fleischer, a law professor at the University of San Diego, took several big-name schools to task for the ways that they handle their endowments. Fleischer cited Harvard, the University of Texas, Stanford and Princeton — but he reserved his harshest criticism for Yale University, which he says …
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The Metro Section of the Washington Post on February 16 carried an article asking “When things started going downhill” (it was a tongue-in-cheek article, and quite amusing). A Mr. Norm Phlion complained that the decline of American civilisation began when Johnson & Johnson removed the tiny red thread from Band-Aid wrappers that made applying a …
Psychiatrists now call disabling grief after the death of someone you are close to “pathological”. This is after only two months after the death. In a book called “Death’s Summer Coat” Brandy Schillace comments,”The modern Westerner has lost loss; death as a communal event, and mourning as a communal practice, have been steadily killed off.” The …
