Katie Couric In No Hurry For Change
1/20/09
LA Times: It’s been four months since Couric interviewed the Alaska governor, soliciting stumbling responses from the vice presidential nominee that became some of the most defining and parodied moments of the 2008 presidential race. But even now, the anchor is still feeling the after-effects.

With Clinton, Obama Loses A Rival, Gains A Valuable Loyalist
1/20/09
Boston Globe: With Obama certain to be tied up with urgent domestic priorities for much of his first year in office, Hillary Clinton is poised to be the most powerful secretary of state since James Baker in the first Bush administration.

Women Set To Take More Power Locally
1/20/09
Institute for War and Peace Reporting: An Iraqi law that sets aside about 25 per cent of seats for women in provincial councils is raising hopes of a new era where women hold political power on a local level.

Hundreds Remember Slain Lawyer
1/21/09
Moscow Times: Hundreds of people carrying flowers and candles visited the blood-smeared spot on Tuesday in central Moscow where lawyer Stanislav Markelov and reporter Anastasia Baburova were slain, many expressing indignation with tears in their eyes.

How We Watched The Inauguration
1/20/09
Advertising Age: By the time final numbers are crunched tomorrow morning, President Barack Obama’s inauguration likely will have been watched by more people and on more platforms than virtually any other televised event in U.S. history — including the Super Bowl.

Google Gives Up On Newspaper Advertising Partnership
1/21/09
LA Times: Google Inc. said Tuesday that it would shut down an advertising partnership with more than 800 newspapers, a key part of the Internet giant’s effort to expand into offline media, because it didn’t make enough money.

HBO Blames Robinson Snub On Miscommunication Within Obama’s Team
1/21/09
The Advocate: HBO’s failure to broadcast the Reverend Gene Robinson’s invocation at the pre-inaugural celebration for President Obama at the Lincoln Memorial on Sunday was due to a miscommunication within the Presidential Inaugural Committee, according to the cable network.

Some Troops Unhappy About Obama Pledge On Gays
1/21/09
Reuters: Many U.S. troops in Iraq were overjoyed to see President Barack Obama take his oath, but some were unhappy about one thing the Democrat has promised to do: permit gay and lesbian soldiers to serve openly.

A Day Of New Beginnings For Michelle Obama And Her Daughters
1/21/09
NY Times: On Inauguration Day, President Obama, his wife, Michelle, and their daughters, Malia and Sasha, became the first black family to move into the White House.

Restoring Repro Rights Is Big Job, Start Now
1/21/09
Women’s eNews: Clearing out the underbrush of Bush-era rules and regulations that rolled back reproductive rights is a big job because it entails so many federal agencies. Caryl Rivers’ advice to the new U.S. president: Start now and stay on it.

Poet Elizabeth Alexander, Bridging A Nation’s Past, Present And Future
1/21/09
Washington Post: Alexander is a distinguished American poet, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Yale professor, an Obama friend. Who better to take up the task of capturing the uncapturable in words? In the end, Alexander merged her words theme with the hopeful new start an inauguration represents.

Report Faults Treatment Of Women Held At Immigration Centers
1/21/09
NY Times: Some 300 women held at immigration detention centers in Arizona face dangerous delays in health care and widespread mistreatment, according to a new study by the University of Arizona, the latest report to criticize conditions at such centers throughout the United States.

Mothers For Peace Take On Nuclear Waste Storage
1/21/09
AP via Boston Globe: At the western edge of a largely dormant anti-nuke movement, three generations of mothers are tilting at nuclear reactors. But their mission is less quixotic than it might appear.

A Female Face On Executive M.B.A.S
1/21/09
Wall Street Journal: While women make up only 22% of the current executive M.B.A. class at Cornell University’s Johnson School of Business, the program is offering a new, less male-dominated persona in a wider effort to attract more women applicants.

Nepali Women’s Interim Protection
1/21/09
RH Reality Check: The government of Nepal recently became the first in the region to recognize women’s fundamental right to reproductive health in its Interim Constitution. Will reproductive rights make the final cut?

India’s Women And Girls Fight Second-Class Status
1/21/09
RH Reality Check: Just as land is valuable because it is fertile, women too are for the same reasons. And that really sums up the status of women in India and the South Asian region.

It’s OK To Hit Your Wife, Says Melbourne Islamic Cleric Samir Abu Hamza
1/22/09
The Australian: A Melbourne Islamic cleric has told his male followers they can force their wives to have sex and hit them if they are disobedient. Coburg’s self-styled cleric Samir Abu Hamza said despite Australian rape laws it was impossible for a man to rape his wife even if she refused to have sex with him.

By Hook Or By Book
1/17/09
The National (United Arab Emirates): Nadine Touma started her Beirut publishing company with two clear goals: to bring art into people’s lives at a young age and to bring Arabic spoken dialects into written text.

Liberia: Pregnant HIV-Positive Women Forgoing Care
1/20/09
IRIN via AllAfrica.com: More than half of the pregnant women who test positive for HIV do not return for counselling and treatment, according to Liberia’s National AIDS Control Programme (NACP).

Peer Counseling May Help Women With Postpartum Depression
1/20/09
LA Times: Postpartum depression can be a frightening and debilitating illness facing mothers after the birth of a child. A new study published online recently in the British Medical Journal found that peer counseling sessions may help mothers combat anxiety.

A Star Of The Early 18th Century Shines Anew As Works Are Revived
1/21/09
NY Times: You may not have heard of Hester Santlow; she is mentioned in few histories of dance or theater. Yet for 27 years in the early 18th century she outshone all other female dancers on the London stage and sparkled beside numerous visiting French male stars.