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South Africa's Reality Bites
This summer, I spent six weeks in Cape Town teaching human rights to a multiracial group of South Africans and Americans—many of whom wanted to party on Long Street more than they wanted to study human rights. Still, I managed to get their attention long enough for us to focus on two recurring issues—housing and…
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Obama Schools Republican Members in Speech on Health Reform
Tonight, the President brought the “full Obama” to a joint session of Congress and changed the game on health care reform. It was the speech he should have given three months ago at the beginning of our health care debate, to better frame the issue for the American public. If this speech had come at…
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PHOTO: Word, Son?
The looks say it all after South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson called the President a liar during his health care address. Particularly outdone is Speaker of the House Pelosi, who looks like one of her grandkids just did their business on the living room rug.
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Excerpts from Obama's Forthcoming Health Care Speech
Excerpts from the President’s address to Congress: I am not the first President to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last. It has now been nearly a century since Theodore Roosevelt first called for health care reform. And ever since, nearly every President and Congress, whether Democrat or Republican, has…
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Peaceful Resolution to Aeromexico Hijacking
The latest from CNN: The hijackers — possibly Bolivians or Colombians — took control of the Boeing 737 Aeromexico jet as it flew from the resort town of Cancun. They said a cardboard box they were carrying contained a bomb, which they threatened to blow up if their demand to speak to President Felipe Calderon…
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Tyra Banks' Real (Boring) Hair
Tyra Banks’ “real hair” reveal on her talk show was much-anticipated and hardly worth the wait. The former supermodel and ANTM creator kicked off the first episode of her show’s fifth season with an underwhelming display of wet tresses sans weave, wig or extensions. Big whoop! I do that everyday. But do I get an…
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Will Obama Pull the Reform "Trigger"?
Barack Obama has reached the put up or shut up moment of his presidency—and he appears to get it. His Labor Day speech was described as feisty; he even trotted out that old “fired up” anecdote. No doubt he’ll come on strong in addressing Congress tonight, too. But here’s what Hillary Clinton got right during…
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Successful and Still Unmarried
If you are a black woman with an advanced degree, there’s a good chance you’ve never been married. New research from Yale University suggests that highly educated black women are twice as likely to have never been married by the age of 45 as white women with similar education. Hannah Bruckner, who leads the Center…
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A Wise Blog Diva
ABOUT LIZA SABATER I rarely watch broadcast TV. And I am not that hot about cop shows either. I watch DIY shows. I don’t get the fascination with venereal disease metaphor movies and shows (am looking at you Twilight and True Blood). I’ve never liked Curb Your Enthusiasm, Maureen Dowd or voicemail. I won’t buy…
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Sudanese Woman, Imprisoned for Wearing Pants, Freed
Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein wore trousers in an effort to challenge Sudan’s decency laws. Authorities toss her in jail and threatened her with a penalty of forty lashes for her flouting of the nation’s laws. A Khartoum judge thought the forty lashes was a bit over the top and told her to pay the $200 fine…