Power through music Manila Bulletin Some female singers deliver their songs with guitar on hand. | Others without instruments belt out their voices in high-strain but engaging mode, while some would rather do it laid-back to charm their audience. One thing that interconnects them is that they all represent women power through the gift...
EDITORIAL COMMENT | No Woman, No Power The Times of India | 19 Nov 2008, 0000 hrs IST Text: We didn't need an international study to learn that this country treats its women badly. But a World Economic Forum (WEF) study measuring gender equality around the world has placed India 113th out of 130 countri...
Global slavery hits home in powerful movie ‘Call + Response’ Chicago Sun-Times | 'Wanna own your own slave?" Jason asked over coffee in his California kitchen one morning last week. | I stared blankly and took another sip. | "Here," Jason said, sliding a stack of what looked a bit like ''Star Wars'' trading cards at me across t...
EDITORIAL COMMENT | No Woman, No Power The Times of India | 19 Nov 2008, 0000 hrs IST Text: We didn't need an international study to learn that this country treats its women badly. But a World Economic Forum (WEF) study measuring gender equality around t...
Thompson powers top-ranked North Carolina to easy 77-58 win over Kentucky Star Tribune | CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Deon Thompson scored a career-high 20 points to help top-ranked North Carolina beat Kentucky 77-58 on Tuesday night despite playing yet again without national player of the year Tyler Hansbrough. | Wayne Ellington had 16 points ...
Downs and Daye power No. 9 Gonzaga to 80-46 win over Idaho Star Tribune | SPOKANE, Wash. - Micah Downs scored 18 points and Austin Daye added 16 as No. 9 Gonzaga blasted Idaho 80-46 on Tuesday night for its ninth consecutive win over the Vandals. | Josh Heytvelt added 15 points for the Bulldogs (2-0), who scored the firs...
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Trio of actresses powers Demme's family drama Philadelphia Daily News | By Carrie Rickey | Inquirer Film Critic According to the rules, tragedy ends in death and comedy in marriage. Yet while - Jonathan Demme's superb rule-bending, heartrending and f...
Powerful Indian women at war The Australian | A FEUD between India's two most powerful women has erupted after the leader of the country's "Untouchables" tried to block a local job-creation project championed by the nation's...
Motherhood boosts female brain power The Times | Motherhood can supercharge the female brain, leading to lifelong improvements in mental skills and giving protection against the degenerative diseases of old age, researchers hav...
Women gaining political power CNN By Ashley Fantz | CNN | (CNN) -- Shirley Chisholm, elected in 1968 as the first black woman in the U.S. Congress, once said: "I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being black." | Slightly more than three years after Chisholm's death...
Women in positions of power BBC News | Could it be argued that there is a tipping point when a critical mass of women get into positions of power at which point the waging of war would become a far less likely prospect? | ...
Tapping the power of women's stories The Boston Globe | It was the early 1960s and Roberta Walcott, a Framingham resident, had called a nursery school in Ashland to see if her 3-year-old son could attend. The woman on the other end of the line told her that yes, they had an opening. Then Walcott told th...
Fear stalks the streets of Kandahar once again Dawn | By Robert Fisk | There is a little girl in the Meir Wais hospital with livid scars and dead skin across her face, an obscene map of brown and pink tissue. Then there is another girl, a beautiful child, Khorea Horay, grimacing in pain, her leg amputated, her life destroyed after her foot was torn to pieces. In another ward, two girls lie on their ...
Hillary Clinton might reject State offer Denver Post | Hillary Rodham Clinton isn't certain she would accept the Secretary of State post even if Barack Obama offers it to her, several people close to the former first lady say. | Press reports that portray Clinton as willing to accept the job — once the Obama transition team vets Bill Clinton's philanthropic and business ventures — are ina...
