By Claudine Zap. Hillary Clinton is bringing her celebrity and her diplomacy to Kabul for the Kabul Conference. But she may be the only woman in the room who is heard.
The conference, according to a piece in The Daily Beast, is to welcome donors who are helping to rebuild the country. But someone seemed to have forgotten that women are the ones really building anything. What, does Afghanistan's leaders truly think local bands of ex-fighters are going to play nice just by asking nice?
This is the country that was happy to throw acid on its girls for having the will to attend school. At the conference, a couple of women will provide a decorative backdrop, but afterward it will be back to the business of being treated like a second-class citizen.
As a member of the Afghan Women's Network put it, "Women are very tired of all these conferences; the government is going to have to show commitments. We want things to change."
But until the faces of leadership change, it's hard to believe
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What do women want? Shoes, that's what. But only the ones celebrities wear. In a ground-breaking, mind-blowing study, researchers actually proved that women's brains are changed when they see celebs sporting sexy shoes.
According to a story in the BBC, the 24 subjects, when confronted with pix of leggy celebrities and their fancy footwear, a part of the brain called the the medial oribitofrontal cortex was activated.
Even though it didn't mean the poor research subjects suddenly felt a strong urge to snap up a pair of Jimmy Choos, it did mean that they related the fashion item with the same part of the brain as affection. This is dangerous stuff, like retail crack.
Save yourselves. The next time you see a celebrity with really cool shoes, look away!
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If you're stuck with the summer TV blahs, now would be a good time to catch up on a show you may have missed the first time around: It's "The Good Wife" -- and it's good.
I was admittedly thrown by the title -- it does the show no justice. The casting is inspired: Julianna Margulies plays the wronged political wife. Her husband is the rock-solid Chris Noth as the jailed attorney general caught trading felonies for sexual favors. Margulies is forced by circumstance out of her comfortable life and back into law. The backdrop of every episode is a straightforward procedural, "Law and Order" style.
The actress doesn't play a high-powered attorney, she's a junior lawyer, crawling her way to partnership. Her boss is played by Josh Charles (you may remember him from the 90s show "Sports Night"). The two have history, and there's some saucy sexual tension between the two of them.
While the subject matter is decidedly ripped from the headlines, the episodes deal
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