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Want to empower working mothers? Call on government for help
In her new book, “Lean In,” Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg advises women to do just that. The message is her “sort of feminist manifesto”: Take a seat at the table, speak up, and don’t worry about pleasing everyone. If...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Culture, Social Security, Feminism, Media Industry
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LACMA's bid for MOCA gains support
When the Los Angeles County Museum of Art under director Michael Govan proposed taking over L.A.'s Museum of Contemporary Art in 2008, the art world rallied against it before MOCA turned it down. But reaction has been different to this week's news that...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Culture, Arts, University of California, Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
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Report finds fundamental flaws in many nonprofits' fundraising
A new national survey of nonprofit executives suggests it isn’t just the uncertain economy that’s making it hard for charities – including arts and culture groups – to meet their fundraising goals. The research says there’s...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Culture, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Officers, Charity
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The 'feminist housewife' vs. Beyonce
New York magazine’s article “The Retro Wife,” about how self-described feminists are bucking their NYC careers in favor of becoming stay-at-home moms, has ignited a fierce debate online. Is feminism the opportunity to make the choice...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Culture, Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy, Feminism
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Long live 'Negro'
I let Black History Month slide by this year without writing anything about it. I am so over celebrating firsts or reprising triumphal narratives. But news from last month did suggest that we may need a black history lesson — one that goes...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Culture, Black History, Slavery, Spain
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Sheryl Sandberg's 'Lean In' offers a feminist view from the top
Sheryl Sandberg's explosive "Lean In" — a muscular manifesto on the gender inequities of the professional world — is being published within weeks of the 50th anniversary of Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique." It's a convergence destined...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Fiction, Arts and Culture, Carly Fiorina, Culture
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Foreign government offices
For tourist information about foreign destinations, contact the government offices below. Several no longer list phone numbers, so information is available only through their websites. For information about a country not listed, call the United Nations at...Tags: Antigua and Barbuda, United Nations, Arts and Culture, Lithuania, Trinidad and Tobago
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World War II internment site considered for historical status
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A world of difference in reactions over foreign, U.S. film violence
Genre filmmaking helps make sense of the world, creating codes by which the seemingly irrational ways of human behavior can be understood. With storytelling modes that travel from country to country — the crime picture, the horror film, the action...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Hong Kong, Pieta (movie), Film Festivals, Sweden
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Gangsta's paradise? U. of Arizona offers minor focusing on hip-hop
Universities across the nation have offered courses on hip-hop culture for several years, but the University of Arizona has decided to take its program further, adding the subject as as a concentration in its Africana Studies minor program. The...
Tags: Cornell University, University of Arizona, Arts and Culture, Music, Culture
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Jared Diamond's 'The World Until Yesterday' is as ambitious as it sounds
-------------------- The World Until Yesterday What Can We Learn From Traditional Societies? Jared Diamond Viking: 500 pp., $36 -------------------- A number of years ago, I found myself at a dinner party with Jared Diamond, the UCLA geography...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Culture, Entertainment Events, Customs and Tradition
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The New York Review of Books turns 50
Finally, a commemoration I can get behind: On Feb. 5, at Town Hall in Manhattan, the New York Review of Books will celebrate its 50th anniversary with an event featuring, among other contributors, Joan Didion, Michael Chabon and Daniel Mendelsohn. The...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Newspaper and Magazine, Culture, Ceremonies, Book
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