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ifeminists
September 23, 2003
Glenn Sacks |
Convicted Murderess Can Get Custody but Decent Fathers Can't Clara Harris, a Texas woman who was convicted of murdering her husband in March, was just granted joint custody of her twin five year-old boys. The ruling validates what fathers' and children's advocates have been saying for years -- when it comes to children, many courts believe that mothers can do no wrong.   |
HBS Working Knowledge
September 22, 2003
Martha Lagace |
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS Partnerships among business, government, and advocacy groups are crucial to halting AIDS. A report from an influential conference at Harvard Business School. |
ifeminists
September 16, 2003
Wendy McElroy |
Confronting Prison Rape A bright light is about to be shone on an almost unseen social problem: prison rape. On Sept. 4, President Bush signed the Prison Rape Elimination Act, which provides for an annual Department of Justice review on the rate and effects of prison rape. Why should you care? |
ifeminists
September 16, 2003
Todd Andrew Barnett |
Free Amina Lawal Religious conservatives do not see the harm in conjoining both the power of the state and the power of their Christian God -- a joining which is used to people. The recent conviction of Amina Lawal, a 32-year-old Nigerian woman, is such a compelling example. |
BusinessWeek
September 22, 2003
Jack Ewing |
Germany: Revolt of the Young They're balking at the prospect of shouldering the financial burden of a fast-growing cohort of retirees. |
BusinessWeek
September 22, 2003 |
Clash in Colombia Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, who has been cracking down on a 39-year-old guerrilla insurgency and the country's cocaine producers since he came to power in August, 2002, is now clashing head-on with human-rights groups. |
HBS Working Knowledge
September 8, 2003
Carla Tishler |
Stories From the Field: Social Enterprise Internships 2003 From Philadelphia to Kyrgyzstan, Harvard Business School social enterprise students used summer internships to work with organizations including Big Brothers Big Sisters, Year Up, Mercy Corps, and USAID. Here is what they learned. |
Geotimes
September 2003
Megan Sever |
Evolution debate continues in Texas At a public hearing on Wednesday, people on both sides of the ongoing evolution debate duked it out over how the topic should be covered in Texas high school biology textbooks. |
IDB America
August 2003
Paul Constance |
Wanted: tough bosses Public institutions cannot hope to improve without first-class management |
Reason
August 2003
Jesse Walker |
Rape Behind Bars A left/right coalition has assembled behind H.R. 1707, the Prison Rape Reduction Act of 2003. The bill would conduct more complete research on the problem and would "provide information, resources, recommendations, and funding to protect individuals from prison rape." The Justice Dept. opposes it. |
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