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(nydailynews.com) I should have taken a stand. I didn't. It was the year 2000. I was interviewing for what I then considered to be the most important job of my life: Miss America 2001. I had spent the past three years dreaming about and preparing for the opportunity. I studied world news and politics. I became a voracious reader of current events, and subscribed to several newspapers and myriad periodicals. I discussed ...More

(iht.com) JACKSON, Mississippi: The mayor of Mississippi's largest city and two police bodyguards were acquitted of using sledgehammers and sticks to demolish a duplex he considered a drug house. Jackson Mayor Frank Melton, 57, would have been forced to resign if convicted of any of the four felony counts, and he could have faced jail time. The officers were also acquitted of the charges. [...] The first-term mayor was elected by a landslide ...More

(dailynews.com) "...Rodney King," says longtime African-American activist Danny Bakewell, "was merely really the straw that broke the camel's back." Bakewell and others say King was the symbol of the two cultures that had historically co-existed in Los Angeles and of the increasingly noticeable inequalities in virtually every aspect of life - inequalities that suddenly could be documented on videotape and evoke human rage when shown over and over again in the ...More

(realclearpolitics.com)"...The National Committee on Pay Equity used the occasion to announce that among full-time workers, women make only 77 cents for every dollar paid to men. The three leading Democratic presidential candidates have all endorsed legislation to fix the problem. And the effort got new fuel from a report by the American Association of University Women (AAUW) Educational Foundation, which says women are paid less starting with their first jobs out ...More

PARIS (Reuters) -- Sitting in a cafe near the Champs Elysees, the 26-year-old French-born woman of Algerian descent looks like any other Parisian. But two months ago, she did something none of her friends have done. She had her hymen re-sewn, technically making her a virgin again. "I'm glad I had it done," said the woman, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity. "I wanted to reconstruct part of my life, ...More