Binge drinking, sexual abuse, pornography and oral-sex parties. While these words and phrases might sound like the makings for a college frat party gone wrong or a trashy adult romance novel, they are just a few of the topics covered in recently released books marketed to young teenage girls.
The University of Missouri this semester has rolled out a class aimed to teach students how to explore difficult topics in a responsible way. The first "Difficult Dialogues: Controversial Subjects in Higher Education" class was last night. About 20 students are enrolled, said Eryca Neville, an assistant teaching professor and faculty fellow for the Chancellor's Diversity Initiative.
Circumcision. Gay marriage. Immigration. There are a handful of subjects so controversial, so likely to propel people into disparate, dueling factions that one dare not even broach them in mixed company. They're surefire feud igniters. They're quarrel kindling.
Mahmoud Abbas, the Fatah leader and president of the Palestinian Authority, is widely discredited in Palestinian circles, not least because of his shilly-shallying over the Goldstone Report on war crimes committed during the Gaza war last December-January. After long and patient negotiations, it drew up a detailed document, dealing with such controversial subjects as arrangements for Palestinian elections set for June 28, 2010, the merging of security forces, the future governance of the two territories by a joint Fatah-Hamas committee, and so forth. Having won the battle with Obama over settlements, Netanyahu is now confident that he can resist international pressure to negotiate on final status issues.
bobschwarz@wvgazette.com Local playwright Dan Kehde has tackled controversial subjects before, but his latest drama, "The Trial of President George W. Bush," pushes him into uncharted territory.
BC-US--Supreme Court-Domestic Partnership, 5th Ld-Writethru,0819 High court: Petitioners' names can be released Eds: New version. By JESSE J. HOLLAND Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- People who sign petitions calling for public votes on controversial subjects don't have an automatic right to hide their names, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday as it sided against Washington state voters worried about harassment because they advocated repeal of that state's gay rights law. The high court ruling against Protect Marriage Washington, which organized a petition drive for a public vote to repeal the state's "everything-but-marriage" domestic partnership law, says disclosure of the names of the signers of referendum petitions can generally be allowed under the Constitution. The S...
When photographs of a party involving the University of Maine softball team were discovered this summer, the school was launched into the national debate involving one of the more controversial subjects in college sports. Student-athletes at the party believed they were bonding. Administrators deemed the events hazing. Opinions from outsiders were just as polarized.
AUBURN -- A letter read by a city councilor Tuesday accused City Manager Glenn Aho of creating a hostile work environment. Councilors rehashed some of their most controversial topics of the past year at an angry meeting. Subjects included the fate of Finance Director Tracy Roy who resigned last month, Aho's performance and his reorganization of the city's department managers.
As general counsel to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) under President Ronald Reagan, I initiated regulatory repeal of the ill-conceived Fairness Doctrine that had suppressed free speech over the airwaves since 1949 by penalizing the broadcast of controversial issues. FCC Chairman Newton Minnow surveyed the broadcast scene in 1961 when the doctrine was in its golden age. He described what he saw as a "vast wasteland. The FCC's repeal, buttressed by its 1985 Report Concerning General Fairness Doctrine Obligations of Broadcast Licensees, was ultimately affirmed by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in Syracuse Peace Council v. FCC (1989). During the ensuing 19 years, not a crumb of evidence has surfaced suggesting that controversial subject...
NEW HAVEN -- Dick Pound has earned a reputation as a man who is rarely at a loss for words. Forthright and to the point on even the most controversial subjects, he's also received his fair share of criticism. Pound, a member of the International Olympic Committee and chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency, was the keynote speaker during a panel discussion at Yale's British Art Center Auditorium on Tuesday.
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