WMC Daily News Brief:  Michelle Obama, Female Vets, Esha Momeni

October 29, 2008

Michelle-O Is Not Jackie-O
http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/michelleo_is_not_jackieo.php?page=all
10/28/08
Columbia Journalism Review: We know, at this point, about Michelle’s fondness for sleeveless tops. We’re aware of her dislike for pantyhose. And of her affinity for Jackie-esque pearls... But how much do we know about Obama’s days as a student at Princeton and Harvard?

Sexual Trauma Haunts Many Female Vets
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/28/AR2008102801693.html
10/28/08
Washington Post: Shedding light on the challenges facing women in the military, a new study shows that more than one in seven female Iraq and Afghanistan veterans seeking VA medical care reported experiencing sexual trauma during their service.

Arrested American Woman Felt The Tug Of Iran
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-fg-esha29-2008oct29,0,1990340.story
10/29/08
LA Times: Esha Momeni was playing with fire when she returned to Tehran from Southern California to work on a project about women's rights.

Christian Science Paper To End Daily Print Edition
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/business/media/29paper.html?bl&ex=1225425600&en=63df0ce22e52f090&ei=5087%0A
10/29/08
NY Times: After a century of continuous publication, The Christian Science Monitor will abandon its weekday print edition and appear online only, its publisher announced Tuesday. The cost-cutting measure makes The Monitor the first national newspaper to largely give up on print.

Curbing Speech At Quinnipiac
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/opinion/29wed3.html?ref=opinion
10/28/08
NY Times: Quinnipiac University has been making a name for itself — a bad name — as it has gone to unusual lengths this semester to try to curb the activities of student journalists who are running an independent, online newspaper that is affiliated with the school and called Quad News.

Palin's Energy Speech
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/palins-energy-speech/
NY Times: Gov. Sarah Palin abandoned the usual flash of her campaign rallies on Wednesday to deliver her second policy speech as the Republican vice-presidential nominee, an address focused on energy security.

Can You Say Senator Sarah Palin?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joanne-bamberger/can-you-say-senator-sarah_b_138602.html
10/27/08
Huffington Post, Joanne Bamberger: Sarah Palin has called for Stevens to step down because if Stevens still got more votes than his Democratic opponent, Alaska would then have to appoint an interim Senator until a special election could be called. And who might Alaska name to an interim term? Senator Sarah Palin.

Obama's Trip Home Leads To Millions Of Grandmas
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/3797
10/29/08
Women's eNews: Obama's visit to his ailing grandmother last week was off the official campaign schedule. But Sandra Kobrin says it had to resonate with the growing numbers of older U.S. women who could use help rearing a second generation of offspring.

Peace Activist Cindy Sheehan Seeks To Unseat Nancy Pelosi For Betraying The Constitution
http://thewip.net/contributors/2008/10/peace_activist_cindy_sheehan_s.html
10/28/08
Women's International Perspective: Garnering national attention, peace activist Cindy Sheehan is now running for office against incumbent Democrat Nancy Pelosi in California's 8th Congressional district. Cindy promised the House Speaker that if impeachment proceedings against George W. Bush did not start when Pelosi took control of the House last year, she would run against her in the next election.

Edwards Emerges From Her Husband's Shadow
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/28/AR2008102803640.html
10/29/08
Washington Post: Nearly three months after former senator John Edwards acknowledged he had had an affair with a campaign consultant, Elizabeth Edwards, 59, is gradually reemerging, cautiously creating a new public persona -- not as the victimized wife, but as an expert on one of the most pressing domestic policy issues of the day: health care. An expert with an unfortunately heavy dose of firsthand experience.

Small Businesses Speak Out About Economic Woes
http://blogs.wsj.com/independentstreet/2008/10/29/small-businesses-speak-out-about-economic-woes/?mod=googlenews_wsj
10/29/08
Wall Street Journal: Small-business owners and association representatives spoke out about the current economic turmoil at a House Small Business Committee hearing yesterday which included testimony from Margot Dorfman, chief executive of the U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce.

Before I Forget...
http://www.theroot.com/id/48595
10/28/08
The Root: What I should've asked my grandmother before Alzheimer's interrupted.

Women Demand Movement On Talks
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=44483
10/28/08
IPS: Over 300 women gathered outside the Rainbow Towers Hotel in Harare on the morning of Oct. 27, dressed mostly in black and white. They were there to protest the prolonged impasse over the allocation of Cabinet ministries among Zimbabwe’s rival parties.

A Career In Dissent
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=44491
10/29/08
IPS: Frozen in disbelief on the steps of the courthouse where she presided as a federal judge, Bertukan Mideksa watched as a man she had just ordered released on bail was detained by plain-clothes police with no warrant and no apparent regard for the law.

Nomadic Schools For Mobile Girls
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=44489
10/29/08
IPS: Five years after the introduction of free primary education (FPE) in Kenya, the enrolment of girls in schools continues to lag behind in Garissa, in Kenya's North Eastern region.

Burma's Bloody Trade
http://www.newstatesman.com/human-rights/2008/10/burma-china-jade-burmese-junta
10/28/08
New Statesman: Rajeshree Sisodia reports on a recent visit to Burma, where she spoke with workers dependant on the country's exploitative jade mining industry.

Women Migrants Need Protection, Empowerment
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=44472
10/28/08
IPS: Filipino domestic worker Joy Romualdo treasures her Sundays not only because it offers her a respite from a week of hard work, but because she can still remember the time when having a day off was a luxury.

Most Women Still Struggle For Health Care
http://allafrica.com/stories/200810290207.html
10/29/08
AllAfrica.com: Although Government has in the past years built health care facilities across the country, research has found that 70 percent of Namibian women have problems accessing health care.

Women More Likely Than Men To Get Injured In Tech Workplaces
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=storage&articleId=9118398&taxonomyId=19&intsrc=kc_top
10/28/08
ComputerWorld: While injuries can occur in any workplace, when something happens at an IT-related business, women employees are more likely to get hurt, according to data from the U.S. Department of Labor.

Beyond Them And Us: Films About Israeli Arabs http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/movies/29fest.html?ref=arts
10/28/08
NY Times: Carole Zabar's "Other Israel Film Festival" is not to be confused with the "23rd Israel Film Festival." Ms. Zabar’s festival, in its second year, focuses specifically on the experience of Israeli Arabs, which makes it somewhat less mainstream and certainly more of a hard sell to its core audience, New York Jews.