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Opinion

Stop the insane reality

by Amy Davis on October 23, 2009

By now, we are all familiar with the misadventures of Falcon Heene and his ready-for-television parents. Reflecting on a six-year-old child who will be known by the moniker “balloon boy” for the rest of Google’s life has lead to a lot of jokes, a lot of anger, but also a lot of questions. The question [...]

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Weighing in

by Zalina Alvi on June 1, 2009

What’s your reaction when someone says “I’m on a diet?”
Do you insist they’re crazy and should be happy the way they are? Or do you support them in their goal of self-improvement? Does it depend on heavy they are, or why they want to do it?
The reactions I get vary. My family — meaning my [...]

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Are South Asian starlets breaking stereotypes?
I don’t know if this is something to be happy about, but it makes me happy to see Freida Pinto and Dev Patel on tabloid TV shows.
It’s not like brown people have never been the subject of celebrity gossip before. Bollywood stars grace the covers of Indian entertainment magazines like [...]

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Women in crisis

by Frances Olimpo on February 9, 2009

You know the saying that if women ruled the world, we’d all be living in a better place?
With the economic crisis blaring from headlines across the world, there’s an opportunity for us to see what happens if it becomes true.
So far, in the forefront, most stories surrounding the financial apocalypse have centered around a cast [...]

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