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Christina Patterson: If only I had blind faith in our national religion

Tue, 01 May 2012 16:40:32 -0700
I like him. I like his squashy red face, and his big, bulbous nose, and the fact that his wife is called Sheila. I like his passion for languages, and his taste in books. I like the fact that he hasn't just heard of Halmstad in Sweden, which is where my mother grew up, and where we used to go for our summer holidays. I like the fact that he's Halmstad's hero.
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Met fashion exhibit eavesdrops on the 'Impossible Conversation' between Prada and Schiaparelli

Tue, 08 May 2012 11:40:35 -0700
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Like bookends, Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada sit at opposite ends of a long, elegant table for their chat. There are crystal wineglasses and an ornate chandelier. They cover fashion, of course, but get into broader topics of politics and exotic places, feminism and popular culture.
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Fly on the wall at Prada and Schiaparelli's table

Tue, 08 May 2012 11:40:18 -0700
Like bookends, Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada sit at opposite ends of a long, elegant table for their chat. There are crystal wineglasses and an ornate chandelier. They cover fashion, of course, but get into broader topics of politics and exotic places, feminism and popular culture.
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Writer Carlos Fuentes' work was the voice of Mexico

Wed, 23 May 2012 11:19:26 -0700
What will become of Mexico? How can a country so powerful, so concerted, so modern, be so impotent, so chaotic, so backward? And how can Mexico, and all Latin America, take ownership of their futures?
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Liz Wallace: Why I Don't Want to Get Gay Married

Fri, 25 May 2012 01:51:30 -0700
I still don't want to get gay married. Not right now, anyway, and the reasons why are a complicated brew. But I do believe gay and lesbian Americans should have the legal right to marry in every state, and that those state rights should be recognized by our federal government.
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Carlos Fuentes, 1928-2012: A Voice of Mexico Past, Present and Future

Wed, 23 May 2012 10:41:12 -0700
What will become of Mexico? How can a country so powerful, so concerted, so modern, be so impotent, so chaotic, so backward? And how can Mexico, and all Latin America, take ownership of their futures?
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Egypt elections: 'Women need a champion'

Wed, 23 May 2012 00:57:38 -0700
The one thing that Egyptians know for certain is that their next president is not a woman. That is because there are no female candidates contesting the presidential elections.
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'They don't like women who are flamboyant about sexuality'

Mon, 21 May 2012 03:16:44 -0700
'Even the stories of Sita or Draupadi, I look at them in a different manner. I wanted to reclaim them as women.' Meena Kandasamy, the young firebrand poet, discusses poetry, social injustice, men and society with Shobha Warrier.
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Why Time’s cover shocks

Thu, 10 May 2012 12:17:26 -0700
It's going to be a long Mom War, people. In case you thought, nay, hoped, that the barrel-bottom had been fully scraped last week when the New York Times asked, in a query straight out of the Onion, "Has women’s obsession with being the perfect mother destroyed feminism?," now Time magazine has upped the ante with a cover story brazenly challenging "Are You Mom Enough?" It's accompanied, by the ...
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Note to 'Foreign Policy' Magazine: Sex Isn't Only A Women's Issue

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:34:44 -0700
Foreign Policy has a special issue out titled ?The Sex Issue.? But it?s really an issue about women, featuring a long essay about misogyny in the Arab World that does very little beyond telling us ? in case we didn?t know ? that misogyny exists, a list of ?The 25 Most Powerful Women You?ve Never Heard Of,? and an article about Chinese society?s angst about rising numbers of single women.
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