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by Joel Dreyfuss onDecember 20, 2009
Americans like to keep score, but the final result in Copenhagen depends on which media you read.
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August 28, 2009
Although the levels proved to be higher than usual, Caster Semenya's test results from three years ago are within range for a woman. Can the debate end now?
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by Kai Wright onAugust 25, 2009
Caster Semenya’s humanity has already been sacrificed to Western culture’s desperate, frightened effort to maintain the fiction of binary, fixed gender.
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by Helena Andrews onAugust 25, 2009
The gender issue surrounding Caster Semenya seems to directly question race and beauty. Who gets to set the standards?
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August 20, 2009
South African runner Caster Semenya just won the 800-meter gold medal at the World Athletics Championship. So why is everyone questioning her gender?
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August 17, 2009
District 9 tells a provocative tale of humans and their intolerance and explotiation of the "other". And the Nigerians are some of the main players.
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August 14, 2009
With its social commentary and existential angst 'District 9' is certainly not your typical alien invasion flick in which plotline is secondary to special effects. Who knew a sci-fi thriller could actually have a heart?
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July 30, 2009
In South Africa, thirty-one lesbians have been reported raped and murdered since 1998. According to one rights group, only two of those cases have ever made it to the courts...
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July 27, 2009
Demanding higher wages, thousands go on strike in Johannesburg...
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July 22, 2009
Anger mounts on some of the country's poorest regions as those living their claim they are without basic services...
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