Look at these ridiculous statistics. At my alma mater, UCT, just 4.3% of professors are black, and 87.4% are white. I know this is a problem that takes time to correct, but this seems way too slow! Scribd
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"The Sex Tape" does not look like a good film, but I do notice something interesting about it. Jason Segel (age 34) and Cameron Diaz (age 41) play a couple in a long-term romantic relationship. When was the last time we saw a Hollywood film that romantically paired an older women with a younger man and it wasn't played for laughs (like the "cougar" scenario)? Wikipedia
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"...many Palestinian speakers say—understandably—that they wish their civil rights weren’t at all dependent on how Jewish American twentysomethings judge their situation. They long for a day when they won’t have to plead their case to well-intentioned people—Jewish or non-Jewish—who possess political power but will never fully understand their reality." Slate
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I think I've posted this before, but it's worth posting again...
"Womens’ supposed greater sex drive was an argument for their inferiority, but once the assumption became reversed, no one argued that mens’ lustfulness was a sign of a fundamental irrationality that should preclude them from business and politics. Rather than a handicap, a large sexual appetite was positive once it came to be seen as a characteristic of men. Women, being passionless, supposedly lacked the drive and ambition to succeed. Much like sex, the public realm of work was dirty and distasteful, hardly suitable to womens’ delicate sensibilities. Since their instincts were maternal rather than sexual, they were best suited to staying virtuously at home with the children. Black women and poor women, on the other hand, were firmly shut out from the dainty flower role. They were still seen as suitable for both work and for satisfying white mens’ sexual urges that were no longer appropriate for their wives." Alternet
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This struck me as an interesting little anecdote, indicating just how much poor municipal performance in SA results from lack of managerial capacity.
"A municipal turnaround specialist who comes across like a bearded Superman with a Stellenbosch MBA, Sibande and his team drew up a three-year plan to move Okhahlamba from having 80 audit comments to securing a clean audit. They made it in two." City Press
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Too many good points to select any one out for a quotation. It's long, but just read it. New Statesman
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"The Sex Tape" does not look like a good film, but I do notice something interesting about it. Jason Segel (age 34) and Cameron Diaz (age 41) play a couple in a long-term romantic relationship. When was the last time we saw a Hollywood film that romantically paired an older women with a younger man and it wasn't played for laughs (like the "cougar" scenario)? Wikipedia
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"...many Palestinian speakers say—understandably—that they wish their civil rights weren’t at all dependent on how Jewish American twentysomethings judge their situation. They long for a day when they won’t have to plead their case to well-intentioned people—Jewish or non-Jewish—who possess political power but will never fully understand their reality." Slate
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I think I've posted this before, but it's worth posting again...
"Womens’ supposed greater sex drive was an argument for their inferiority, but once the assumption became reversed, no one argued that mens’ lustfulness was a sign of a fundamental irrationality that should preclude them from business and politics. Rather than a handicap, a large sexual appetite was positive once it came to be seen as a characteristic of men. Women, being passionless, supposedly lacked the drive and ambition to succeed. Much like sex, the public realm of work was dirty and distasteful, hardly suitable to womens’ delicate sensibilities. Since their instincts were maternal rather than sexual, they were best suited to staying virtuously at home with the children. Black women and poor women, on the other hand, were firmly shut out from the dainty flower role. They were still seen as suitable for both work and for satisfying white mens’ sexual urges that were no longer appropriate for their wives." Alternet
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This struck me as an interesting little anecdote, indicating just how much poor municipal performance in SA results from lack of managerial capacity.
"A municipal turnaround specialist who comes across like a bearded Superman with a Stellenbosch MBA, Sibande and his team drew up a three-year plan to move Okhahlamba from having 80 audit comments to securing a clean audit. They made it in two." City Press
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Too many good points to select any one out for a quotation. It's long, but just read it. New Statesman
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