Archive for August 9th, 2006
Shakira speaks out about Lebanon
4:50 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|World · 1 Comment
9 Aug 2006
Colombian rocker Shakira, who is half Lebanese, is speaking out about the war in Lebanon, saying she’d like to see an immediate cease fire:
“It breaks my heart, that we remain silent while this is happening. I hope that my generation will call upon the world to intervene to end this conflict,” Shakira, whose father is from Lebanon, has said.There has to be “immediate” intervention that would lead to a ceasefire, the singer said.
“I am sad, as I believe the rest of the world is, knowing that so many mothers and children are being killed on both sides,” Shakira said.
“We do not need leaders who create dispute, anger and hate but rather leaders who care about the people and their needs,” the rock star was quoted by ‘Ynet’ as saying.
She said that war is “neither the answer nor the solution to any conflict, not today and not in this century”.
It’s nice to hear a big star speak out on a topic of such importance, instead of just standing silently on the sidelines like so many others.
Via / Hindustan Times
Argentine asks government for a vasectomy
12:01 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Argentina|Family|Health|Politics|sex · Comments Off
9 Aug 2006
I had no idea that vasectomies were illegal in Argentina, until I read that some guy that seriously needs to get one is now petitioning his government for permission to do so:
An Argentine who is 44 years old and has 37 children has asked the courts to allow him to have a vasectomy because he doesn’t want to keep procreating.The case of Cleto Ruiz Diaz has all of the ingredients to attract the media, but it’s gotten more notoriety because the Argentine parliament is close to giving a green light to letting men and women have operations to eliminate their ability to reproduce.
According to Montevideo.com/EFE, the man works as a painter, and doesn’t have the money to buy contraceptives because
he says that “buying a box of condoms would be mean ‘leaving his family without a kilo of sugar’”. He also says he cannot control himself to abstain when he falls in love with a woman, and that he lived for 14 years with three wives under the same roof.
Where are the Latina Lawyers?
11:20 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Careers|Women · Comments Off
9 Aug 2006
According to a recent report by the American Bar Association, Latina and other women of color attorneys are leaving their posts at top firms across the country. The reason? Besides having to face the glass ceiling because of their gender, these mujeres deal with racism that ranges from the subtle to the not so subtle.
An American Indian attorney is asked where she keeps her tomahawk. White male partners look past a black lawyer, assuming she is clerical staff. An Asian attorney is called a “dragon lady” when she asserts herself.
The report, titled Visible Invisibility: Women of Color in Law Firms, was conducted by the bar association with the help of the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago. Questionnaires were sent to about 1,300 attorneys, both men and women, and responses came from 72 percent, or 920.
NY State Test Takers : Don’t Know English? Too Bad!
8:37 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Bilingualism|children|Education|language|New York · 2 Comments
9 Aug 2006
As if New York State students, regardless of home language, didn’t have enough to worry about with the increased use of high-stakes testing that makes or breaks the grade, now the heat is on students with limited English. The rule used to be that if a student was in an English as a Second Language (ESL) program for three years or less, they were exempt from taking the English Language Arts (ELA) exam, one of the tests used for promotion in New York State schools. AP is reporting that this is no longer the case. Now any student who has had at least one year of ESL services will be required to take the ELA. I can hear the English only crowd cheering. The sad fact is that the ESL program in New York State doesn’t work.
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