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Dutch teen in battle to sail around the world
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I came across an interesting article about a thirteen-year-old girl who wants to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world.
Laura Dekker was born in New Zealand while her parents were on a round-the-world sailing trip and spent the first f...[Read on] |
Sarah Palin Voices Her Support for Dr. Laura on Twitter
| Photo by Roger H. Goun
Sarah Palin took to Twitter last night to offer encouragement to Dr. Laura Schlessinger, who’s leaving her radio show in order, she says, to “regain her First Amendment rights.”
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HBO developing show for Laura Dern
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HBO seems to be on a great track. Based on her Golden Globe winning and Emmy nominated performance as Katherine Harris in Recount, HBO wanted to get into the series business with Dern. But she wanted to wait for the right vehicle
Enter Mike White (Ye...[Read on] |
Meghan McCain Snags Six-Figure Book Deal
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No details yet on what the outspoken blogger/Ann Coulter hater will write about, but it’s likely to give some pointers to the GOP about how to surviveMeghan McCain Book Deal | Today 10:10 am
Meghan McCain already has "blogger extraordinaire&q...[Read on] |
Welcome home Euna Lee and Laura Ling!
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As I'm sure you've already heard, journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling were freed and returned home today after more than four months jailed in North Korea.
Thirty hours ago, Ms. Ling said, "We feared that any moment we could be sent to a hard labor cam...[Read on] |
Sign the petition for Euna Lee and Laura Ling
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Euna Lee and Laura LingAs you may have heard by now, two American journalists with CurrentTV, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, were just sentenced to 12 years in a North Korean labor camp. They were found guilty of unspecified "grave crimes" and "hostile acts" --...[Read on] |
Few Details on Detained Journalists From Al Gore's Current TV
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Whereabouts of Euna Lee and Laura Ling — sister of former ‘View’ co-host Lisa Ling — unknown; U.S. working with Chinese, Swiss on releaseAmerican Journalists Detained in North Korea | Today 11:00 am
Time may not be on the side o...[Read on] |
Laura Bush says Kagan Nomination is 'Great'
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by Amy Matsui, Senior Counsel, National Women's Law Center
Former First Lady Laura Bush told "Fox News Sunday" yesterday that she was"really glad" there would be three female Justices, if Elena Kagan, nominated to replaced Justice Stevens, were confirm...[Read on] |
Why were Laura Ling and Euna Lee in North Korea?
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Absent from reporting on the imprisonment and release of Laura Ling and Euna Lee, which has taken the disturbing turn of focusing on the power dynamic between the Clintons, is the story the journalists were investigating in the first place. A piece by Ji-...[Read on] |
Ridiculous Study Claims Plus Size Models Equal Obese Society
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A new study from The London School of Economics and Political Science claims that plus-size models will increase obesity in the United States and Europe. Authors, Dr. Davide Dagone and Dr. Laura Savorelli, write that, “Given that people are on avera...[Read on] |
Women & Hollywood on GRITtv
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Check out my appearance on a year end movie segment on GRITtv hosted by Laura Flanders.
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SPiN opens in Hollywood
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Epic Hollywood nights await you. The wildly famous NYC nightspot SPiN is to town. SPiN Hollywood at Mondrian features DJs, table tennis and owner/promoter Susan Sarandon.
First, some background: last year, a band of nightlife pioneers (one being Susan...[Read on] |
The Oxymoron of the Sarah Palin “Conservative Feminism” Brand
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Let me say this one more time: Sarah Palin is not a feminist. In fact, the fabricated term “conservative feminist” is an oxymoron.
As I said this morning on the Laura Ingraham Show, Sarah...
This is a content summary only. Visit Women and Pol...[Read on] |
Take a Knee: Teen Girls Talk B-Ball, Leadership, Life
| By Laura Pappano
Because we can all benefit from hearing serious young female athlete voices, we connected with three talented basketball players who just finished nine days at the summer academy run by the non-profit SportsChallenge Leadership & Edu...[Read on] |
Frances McDormand Takes on a New Role – Producer
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Actress Frances McDormand can add an new title to her resume – producer now that she has optioned two books.
The first is the Pulitzer Prize winning book Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. She purchased the book before it won the Pulitzer. Jan...[Read on] |
George W. Bush Penning Book on Presidential Decisions
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George W. Bush is hard at work on a book about his life’s greatest decisionsGeorge W. Bush | Today 10:45 am
George W. Bush is keeping his forthcoming memoir simple.
Rather than rambling on and on about his life, the former president will inste...[Read on] |
There’s a Title IX Game Being Played (and it’s NOT helping female athletes)
| By Laura Pappano
Whether or not a judge rules that Quinnipiac University has violated Title IX by cutting its Women’s Volleyball team is less newsworthy than what we learned in court today.
That is, coaches manipulated rosters to meet Title IX require...[Read on] |
Pappano on Title IX: “It’s been slow progress and we certainly are not there yet.”
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The institutionalization of any movement’s ideals – whether that be educational ideals at the local level or political ideals at the national level – is often a double-edged sword: although it may represent a “victory&rdquo...[Read on] |
HBO Orders Comedy Pilot About Female VP
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Here’s some interesting news. HBO has ordered a comedy pilot from Armando Iannucci who wrote the hysterical In the Loop which will be about the first female VP. It’s called Veep.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus has been mentioned as a possible star &#...[Read on] |
Book Review: The Lost Recipe for Happiness
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Author: Barbara O’Neal
Pages: 447
Date Started: 8/8/10
Date Finished: 8/15/10
Simple Summary: Elena is a chef and has a past. Mega horror film director Julian Liswood wants her to spearhead his new restaurant in Aspen, CO. And to taste her naughty bits....[Read on] |
GirlDrive the book is out
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Two years after Nona Willis Aronowitz and the missed Emma Bee Bernstein hit the road for a journey across the country and into the minds of young women on the many states and forms of feminism, their book on their findings has been released. Here's the ...[Read on] |
Nawal El Moutawakel on education of women and girls
| LAURA WALDEN / Sports Features Communications
TAMPA/NEW YORK, Sept 22: IOC Executive Board member Nawal El Moutawakel was speaking out at the UN Millennium Development Goals Summit being held in New York to support of education for women.
The Olympian i...[Read on] |
Women & Hollywood: Women to Watch
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What a great idea. The people who run the Cultural Leadership Programme in the UK know that there is a leadership disparity between men and women in the arts. Lots of times the issue is that the women are just not visible enough in order to get that n...[Read on] |
Orange Women’s Fiction Nominees
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I love listing awards that focus on women cause we always get exposed to so many women we otherwise would probably never hear of. Here’s this year’s longlist for the Orange Women’s Fiction Prize. Clearly you can tell from the list there are some w...[Read on] |
Why Chelsea Clinton's Wedding Dress Will Be Oscar de la Renta
| Chelsea Clinton wearing Oscar de la Renta to the School of American Ballet's Winter Ball in New York City, March 5, 2007. From PatrickMcMullan.com. Now that Chelsea Clinton has announced that's she's engaged to her longtime boyfriend, Marc Mezvinsky, who ...[Read on] |
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