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Commentary Peters: Same-Sex Domestic Partnership Benefits Represent a Limited Gain

Commentary, August, 25 2000 Cynthia Peters
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Since when did we imagine that the countryÕs top automakers, Disney Corporation, AT&T, Nike, and the Gap had the interests of gays and lesbians in mind?

Commentary Peters: Talking to Kids about Class

Commentary, August, 03 2000 Cynthia Peters
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My daughter had been studiously observing the Stop and Shop employee who was bagging our groceries. As she left the store, she seemed perplexed about something. Finally, she asked her father, ÒDad, is bagging groceries a really bad job?Ó

Commentary Peters: Robin Hood Was Right

Commentary, May, 28 2000 Cynthia Peters
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The Newtown Florist Club in Gainesville, Georgia was a group of African American churchwomen that brought flowers to the sick. After a while, they noticed that a lot of the sick had gotten that way because of environmental problems. The Newtown ch...

Commentary Peters: Cure `em or Kill `em

Commentary, May, 09 2000 Cynthia Peters
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Disability rights activists have been waiting for Christopher Reeve to get over his ÒI-will-walk-againÓ thing. But itÕs been 5 years since the actor, best known for his role as ÒSuperman,Ó became a quadriplegic after a horse-riding accident, and h...

Commentary Peters: The DC Demos

Commentary, April, 18 2000 Cynthia Peters
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Note: I attended the protests on Sunday and Monday as an individual Òon the fly.Ó The impressions offered here are just that. They are based on my personal viewpoint during the events, and do not include extensive background information. Notes on ...

Commentary Peters: The Teenage Liberation Handbook

Commentary, March, 20 2000 Cynthia Peters
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group, national or religious or even social, in the competititon with other groups. It is this motive, in the main, which determines the subjects taught, the knowledge offered and the knowledge Grace Llewellyn, author of ÒThe Teenage Liberation Ha...

Commentary Peters: Reproduction and Sexuality 101

Commentary, March, 01 2000 Cynthia Peters
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I live in a progressive diverse neighborhood where pre-schools stock copies of "Heather Has Two Mommies," but even where this love-makes-a-family consciousness has a strong voice, it does not seem to translate into how we talk to our kids about se...

Commentary Peters: Progressive Causes Provide Marketing Opportunities

Commentary, February, 07 2000 Cynthia Peters
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What happens when corporations take on progressive social and political issues? We've all had the opportunity to roll our eyes at the marketers who co-opt feminist principles in order to sell their products. "Take Control" hair gel and "Stay Free...

Commentary Peters: Porn Stars, Promise-Keepers, and "Pound Dawgs" A Comment on: Stiffed, by Susan Faludi

Commentary, January, 14 2000 Cynthia Peters
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Male porn stars get paid based on their ability to sustain an erection. Promise Keepers are told to look to God as a Father they can trust, and to stock up on Promise Keeper mugs, t-shirts, and other memorabilia. "Pound Dawgs" - extreme fans of th...

Commentary Peters: It Is Not As Easy As ABC

Commentary, December, 23 1999 Cynthia Peters
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A recently released study finds that children from poor families are better off if they spend more time in day care starting at an earlier age. The Abecedarian Project (named for the first four letters of the alphabet), conducted at the University...

Commentary Peters: Neither Heroes Nor Fools

Commentary, December, 17 1999 Cynthia Peters
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"They forced us all out of the house and one of them held a gun to my head. `I am going to kill you. You are a child of FALINTIL.' `No,' I told the soldier, `I am a child.'"

Commentary Peters: East Timor: Reparations and Responsibility

Commentary, November, 17 1999 Cynthia Peters
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The New York Times reported on October 25 the claim that the United States had "poured billions" into East Timor. The next day the Times ran a "correction," saying that in fact "Washington's foreign aid" to East Timor "has not amounted to billions."

Commentary Peters: East Timor: Reparations and Responsibility

Commentary, November, 17 1999 Cynthia Peters
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The New York Times reported on October 25 the claim that the United States had "poured billions" into East Timor. The next day the Times ran a "correction," saying that in fact "Washington's foreign aid" to East Timor "has not amounted to billions."

Commentary Peters: Class Politics in America: A Fashionable Consumer Item

Commentary, October, 19 1999 Cynthia Peters
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I spent $44.00 recently to see Dario Fo's farce about hunger, free-market injustice, sexism, and class injustice at the American Repertory Theater in Harvard Square. Dario Fo, "who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and...

Commentary Peters: Educational Philosophies and Power in the Classroom

Commentary, September, 21 1999 Cynthia Peters
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ItÕs that time of year. The yellow school buses are back on the road. The stores are stocked with Disney-theme lunch boxes, pencil cases and loose-leaf paper. Kids are wondering about their teachers. Parents are worrying about the quality of educa...

Commentary Peters: East Timor Activism in Boston

Commentary, September, 16 1999 Cynthia Peters
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The Sydney Morning Herald reported on Tuesday, September 14, 1999 that "Piles of bodies were burnt on the streets of Dili at the weekend and tens of thousands of refugees were without food or water as they fled the militias and the Indonesian Army...

Commentary Peters: Teacher, There's a Brand Name in My Math Problem

Commentary, August, 23 1999 Cynthia Peters
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Teacher, There's a Brand Name in My Math Problem

Commentary Peters: Give em Ritalin

Commentary, July, 31 1999 Cynthia Peters
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Although there is no medical proof that there is such a thing as Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), over 3.5 million children in the United States are diagnosed as having some form of it.

Commentary Peters: Children: Their Deficiencies,

Commentary, July, 13 1999 Cynthia Peters
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We are at my 7-year old daughter's annual check-up. After a peering in her ears and mouth, palpating her glands, and listening to her heart, the Doctor points at Zoe's crotch and asks abruptly, "Does anyone ever touch you here?" Zoe is taken aback...

Commentary Peters: Chicken Pox?!

Commentary, June, 25 1999 Cynthia Peters
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Providing temporary immunity to children could drive chicken pox disease into the older adult population where it can cause many more deaths and complications.

Commentary Peters: Mentoring Toward Revolution

Commentary, June, 08 1999 Cynthia Peters
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Do you have mentors in your life? Are you anyone's mentor? Could we positively affect social change movements by building mentoring relationships into our political work? I think we could.

Commentary Peters: Historically

Commentary, June, 02 1999 Cynthia Peters
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At a recent birthday, my daughter became the proud owner of the much coveted American Girl doll. We had vaguely supported her strong desire to have an American Girl doll. We knew that the doll would come with books that told the girl's story, that...

Commentary Peters: What She Really Wants

Commentary, May, 10 1999 Cynthia Peters
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Take a look at that face. It's true. She really could use a little help with her complexion. It may be that with all that mothering work she's been doing she hasn't had time to properly wash, rinse, clarify, tone, moisturize, and treat twice a wee...

Commentary Peters: On Knowing and Responding

Commentary, April, 29 1999 Cynthia Peters
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On this the liberal and the right-wing columnists seem to agree: Adults are responsible for not controlling the behavior of Littleton, ColoradoÕs Òtrench coat mafiaÓ killers. Eileen McNamara, liberal columnist for the Globe, suggests that the pare...

Commentary Peters: Responding To Sentiment

Commentary, April, 21 1999 Cynthia Peters
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There was a lengthy debate at my dinner table the other night about the situation in Yugoslavia. Most of my relatives defended the NATO bombings as the only moral action to take in the face of crimes being committed against ethnic Albanians. I arg...

Commentary Peters: Is There A Truth About Rigoberto Menchu

Commentary, April, 10 1999 Cynthia Peters
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My friend the anthropologist says there is no such thing as truth. She says that sheÕs interviewed people in the field who completely contradict each other. One says the volcano erupted and the other says it didnÕt. They both say it with equal con...

Commentary Peters: Teen Girls, Sexism, and Marketing

Commentary, March, 16 1999 Cynthia Peters
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The more time a teen girl spends reading fashion magazines, the worse she feels about herself, according to a study done by Brigham and Women's hospital released earlier this month.

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