A growing movement of sex workers and activists is making the decriminalization of sex work a feminist issue.
Starting with the class that enters Harvard in fall 2017, members of single-sex clubs will be prohibited from holding leadership positions on campus, according to a statement released by the university’s president, Drew Gilpin Faust. This would include athletic team captains; many club members have historically been captains. Members will also be barred from receiving the official recommendations required for prestigious postgraduate fellowships and scholarships, such as the Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships, the statement said.
BUENOS AIRES — In Argentina, former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has been indicted, accused of endangering the nation’s finances. In Brazil, President Dilma Rousseff is facing an impeachment trial, and her interim successor has appointed only male ministers. InChile, President Michelle Bachelet, once hugely popular, has seen her approval ratings plunge.
French women are fed up with sexual harassment, and they aren’t going to take it anymore. That was the message in an extraordinary “Statement Against Sexism” published in France on Sunday and signed by 17 prominent women, including the International Monetary Fund chief, Christine Lagarde.
Kenneth W. Starr, the former independent counsel who delivered a report that served as the basis for President Bill Clinton’s impeachment in 1998, was removed as president of Baylor University on Thursday after an investigation found the university mishandled accusations of sexual assault against football players.
Cô giáo Phạm Thị Sang - nguyên Hiệu trưởng Trường Mầm non xã Trường Sơn, Nông Cống, Thanh Hóa - sau 40 năm “khốn khó trăm bề” cống hiến cho sự nghiệp giáo dục, hôm qua đã té ngửa khi biết đồng lương hưu của mình chỉ 440.000 đồng mỗi tháng.
William J. Hager, 86, said he had run out of options. His wife, Carolyn Hager, 78, had been ill for the last 15 of the more than 50 years they were married. The cost of her medications had become so burdensome that they could no longer afford it, he said. So on Monday morning while she was sleeping, he shot her in the head, he told the deputy who came to their Florida home.
SINCE Dane Peters retired three years ago as head of school at Brooklyn Heights Montessori School in Brooklyn, he has fused a life of consulting, volunteering and leisure time. “It’s my trifecta,” he said. “Paid work, giving back and relaxation. I call it ‘consulteering.’”
Michael Kinsley is aging so you don’t have to. The editor in him, the one who held the reins at The New Republic, Harper’s and Slate, and grasped for a few hours the chance to helm The New Yorker, would refine that. Here’s how he puts it, in his guidance to the 74 million baby boomers entering the years of living less dangerously:
“But when it comes to the ultimate boomer game, competitive longevity, I’m on the sidelines doing color commentary.” His chronic disease, which gives him many of the symptoms of old age but which he believes is no more likely to bring him to an early death than slipping on a bar of soap, has presented him with “an interesting foretaste of our shared future.”
Tại tọa đàm điều kiện cho ĐH không vì lợi nhuận tại Việt Nam tổ chức ngày 12/5, nhiều chuyên gia cho rằng, tại Việt Nam chưa có ĐH không vì lợi nhuận.