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Not all women. A recent Wall Street Journal article about [Hillary Clinton]'s appeal with female voters quotes Deborah Lamberti, a New York psychoanalyst, as saying: "It was an opportunity for her to be human and yet it was very inauthentic. And as women, it brought us back not forward. It's the stereotype of a woman who thinks her boss is going to fire her-and Hillary thought the American people were going to fire her-saying, 'Okay, it's time to bring out the emotion.'
This would be a perfect time for a feminist voice to come out of the wilderness and publish a well-crafted, lengthy, historically informed, thoughtful retort to this notion of judging Hillary Clinton on the basis of her gender. Women leaders may not be the norm in the United States, but there have been many in the rest ...
... Chile's Michelle Bachelet and Norway's Gro Harlem Brundtland, to name just a few. This global realit...
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Americans have been rope-a-doped into believing that global warming is going to destroy our planet. Scientists who have been skeptical about manmade global warming have been called traitors or handmaidens of the oil industry.
The Washington Post asserted on May 28, 2006, that there were only "a handful of skeptics" of manmade climate fears. Bill Blakemore on Aug. 30, 2006, said, "After extensive searches, ABC News has found no such" scientific "debate on global warming." U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer said it was "criminally irresponsible" to ignore the urgency of global warming. U.N. special climate envoy Gro Harlem Brundtland on May 10, 2007 declared the climate debate "over" and added, "It's completely immoral, even, to question" the Unite...
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Members of the commission include Ali Alatas (Indonesia), Turki Al-Faisal (Saudi Arabia), Alexei Arbatov (Russia), Gro Harlem Brundtland (Norway), Frene Noshir Ginwala (South Africa), Fraçois Heisbourg (France), Jehangir Karamat (Pakistan), Brajesh Mishra (India), Klaus Naumann (Germany), former Defense Secretary William Perry (United States), Wang Yingfan (China), Shirley Williams (United Kingdom) and former President Ernesto Zedillo (Mexico). The 15 co-chairs and commissioners will be supported by a panel of experts.
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Americans have been rope-a-doped into believing that global warming is going to destroy our planet. Scientists who have been skeptical about man-made global warming have been called traitors or handmaidens of big oil. The Washington Post asserted on May 28, 2006, that there were only "a handful of skeptics" of man-made climate fears. Bill Blakemore on Aug. 30, 2006, said, "After extensive searches, ABC News has found no such (scientific) debate on global warming." U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer said it was "criminally irresponsible" to ignore the urgency of global warming. U.N. special climate envoy Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland on May 10, 2007, declared the climate debate "over" and added "it's completely immoral, even, to question" the U.N.'s s...
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...A. Stockholm Conference and the Brundtland Commission . Historically, sustainable development...(21) . In 1983, Gro Harlem Brundtland, the former Prime Minister of Norway, w...
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====yale ====celebrates 310th commencement====
Scientists, artists, envoy earn degree of recognition
...Gro Harlem Brundtland, former head of the World Health Organi...
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Might film director, producer and writer, Martin Scorsese, ever cast a movie on the gritty streets of New Haven or feature it as a growing medical research center?
Don't look for it yet, but the much lauded director of more than 40 films, when asked Monday if he would ever like to make a movie here, said: "I'd love to. It's a beautiful little city.
...Gro Harlem Brundtland, former head of the World Health Organi...
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Raising taxes on the rich won't work, either
I write in response to S.A. Miller's accusations in the letter "Republicans sacrificed economy for the rich" on July 13.
...Gro Harlem Brundtland, vice president of The World Socialist ...
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In that capacity, despite continuing her responsibilities as Prime Minister, she and her hand-picked commissioners from 21 countries (more than half from the developing world) were able to unveil a report, Our Common Future (popularly referred to the Brunddand Report) that has become the most important document in the history of modern environmentalism and introduced the ground-breaking concept of sustainable development. Prior to that came The Shipping News, based on the best-selling novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Proulx and starring Kevin Spacey and Judi Dench, and An Unfinished Life with Robert Redford and Jennifer Lopez. 2008 Recipient of The American-Scandinavian Foundation's CULTURAL AWARD Lena Olin EVER SINCE HER GIRLISH, HAT-WAVING ROMP WITH CO-STAR Juliette Binoche in the...
...GOLD MEDAL. Gro Harlem Brundtland. FEW, IF ANY, INDIVIDUALS HAVE CHAMPION...
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.... (3.) Gro Harlem Brundtland (chair) and the World Commission on Env...