SCHOOLS NEED TO TEACH A FOURTH R: RESPECT
Fifteen years ago, I walked up to the podium of a large suburban gymnasium to accept a scholastic achievement award. It was the last week of my senior year in...
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STREET HARASSMENT IS WHAT IT IS: DEGRADING
Ah, spring: The season of renewal, daffodils, warm weather and "obscene revilings." Because this is a family newspaper, I must sidle up to the topic of street harassment and use...
LISTEN FOR THE SOUND OF CASH REGISTERS
Silicone-filled breasts. Beautiful models dressed in bondage-style clothing. Movies about dangerous, oversexed teenage girls. Desecrated female images are so common we hardly notice them. If we do, there's always "the...
MUCH HAS BEEN DONE, BUT MORE IS EXPECTED
I grew up in the 1970s secure in the notion that our mothers would have created equality for us girls by the time we went out into the world as...
FOR HILLARY CLINTON, THE REAL JOB BEGINS
In a warm weekday afternoon in May, Hillary Clinton was conducting interviews with local television reporters in Lexington, Ky. The time was pre- convention, post-''cookies-and-teas'' flap. Three interviewers were lined...
HERE`S ANOTHER THING GUYS DON`T GET
In recent weeks, ''Guys just don`t get it'' became a rallying cry for women as the congressional hearings into sexual-harassment allegations saturated the national psyche. A more fortuitous event hardly...
A HEALTHIER WAY TO CONVENE
Don`t look for the 350 conventioneers attending the National Association of Women`s Health Professionals Conference at happy hour. Try the lakefront bike/hike path instead. In addition to the daily 4:30...
THE TRIALS OF A COURT REPORTER
Cynthia McFadden, anchor for new cable channel Court TV, says she finally has found an outlet for her gift of gab. The lawyer-journalist spent the last decade working behind the...
PANT, PANT … IT`S CALVIN AGAIN
Just when you thought it was safe to open a magazine, along comes another entry in the provocative-ad-as-erotic-art derby. But in the latest campaign for Calvin Klein jeans, it`s a...
GREETINGS FOR THE UNEMPLOYED
The economic slump has created yet another occasion for card-felt sentiment, and a New York woman has seized the moment by creating greetings for those who`ve gotten the ax. Tsgoyna...